{"id":1362,"date":"2026-07-16T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/?page_id=1362"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:17:24","slug":"harnessing-linked-knowledge-sources-for-topic-classification-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/harnessing-linked-knowledge-sources-for-topic-classification-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing Linked Knowledge Sources for Topic Classification in Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr Elizabeth Cano Basave
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Topic classification (TC) of short text messages o ffers an effective and fast way to reveal events happening around the world ranging from those related to Disaster (e.g. Sandy hurricane) to those related to Violence (e.g. Egypt revolution). In this talk I will present a novel approach for harnessing concept graph structures surrounding entities appearing on microposts. This approach involves the following steps: (i) building a conceptual representation of entities presented in different Knowlege sources (KS)s, (ii) leveraging contextual information about concepts by exploiting semantic concept graphs, and (iii) providing a principled way for the combination of KSs. Experiments evaluating our TC classifier in the context of Violence detection (VD) and Emergency Responses (ER) show promising results that significantly outperform various baseline models including an approach using a single KS without linked data and an approach using only Tweets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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