Social Media

Social Media Workshop

Ben Hachey and Miles Osborne (eds), Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media. NAACL, Los Angeles, US. June 2010.

First Story Detection

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne, Victor Lavrenko. Recency is good: expanding with fresh news improves event detection in Twitter. Tiny Transactions in Computer Science, Volume 2. 2013.

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Luke Shrimpton. Can Twitter replace Newswire for breaking news?. ICWSM, Boston US. July 2013.

Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis. Bieber no more: First Story Detection using Twitter and Wikipedia. SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access, Portland, Oregon, US. August 2012.

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko. Using paraphrases for improving first story detection in news and Twitter. NAACL, Montreal, Canada. June 2012.

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko. Streaming First Story Detection with application to Twitter. NAACL, Los Angeles, USA. June 2010.

Retrieval

Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Jintao Tang and Ting Wang. Who will Retweet Me? Finding Retweeters in Twitter. SIGIR, Dublin, Ireland July 2013.

Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne and Ting Wang. Opinion Retrieval in Twitter. ICWSM, Dublin, Ireland June 2012.

Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic and Ting Wang, . Improving Twitter Retrieval by Exploiting Structural Information. AAAI, Toronto, Canada July 2012.

Twitter-specific

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko. I wish I didn't say that! Analyzing and Predicting Deleted Messages in Twitter. arXiv, May 2013.

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko. RT to win! Predicting Message Propagation in Twitter. ICWSM, Barcelona, Spain. July 2011.

Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne and Victor Lavrenko. The Edinburgh Twitter Corpus. Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media (workshop at NAACL), Los Angeles, USA. June 2010.

(August 2010) Twitter have asked us to stop distributing this data.

Prediction Markets

Joshua Ritterman, Miles Osborne and Ewan Klein. Using Prediction Markets and Twitter to Predict a Swine Flu Pandemic. 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media. Seville, Spain. November 2009.

Opinion Pieces

Miles Osborne. Social Media: It is Good to Talk. University of Edinburgh Staff Magazine. August 2010. Short article on using Social Media for research etc; problems and future outlook.