%0 Conference Paper %B Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009, 10th International Conference %D 2009 %T Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis of Citizen Sensor Data: Challenges and Experiences %A Meenakshi Nagarajan %A Karthik Gomadam %A Amit Sheth %A Ajith Ranabahu %A Raghava Mutharaju %A Ashutosh Jadhav %E Gottfried Vossen %E Darrell D. E. Long %E Jeffrey Xu Yu %X

We present work in the spatio-temporal-thematic analysis of citizen-sensor observations pertaining to real-world events. Using Twitter as a platform for obtaining crowd-sourced observations, we explore the interplay between these 3 dimensions in extracting insightful summaries of social perceptions behind events. We present our experiences in building a web mashup application, Twitris [1] that extracts and facilitates the spatio-temporal-thematic exploration of event descriptor summaries.

%B Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009, 10th International Conference %I Springer %C Poznan, Poland %V 5802 %P 539–553 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_52 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_52 %0 Conference Paper %B Semantic Web Challenge at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) %D 2009 %T Twitris: Socially Influenced Browsing %A Ashutosh Jadhav %A Wenbo Wang %A Raghava Mutharaju %A Pramod Anantharam %A Vinh Nguyen %A Amit Sheth %A Karthik Gomadam %A Meenakshi Nagarajan %A Ajith Ranabahu %X

In this paper, we present Twitris, a semantic Web application that facilitates browsing for news and information, using social perceptions as the fulcrum. In doing so we address challenges in large scale crawling, processing of real time information, and preserving spatiotemporal-thematic properties central to observations pertaining to realtime events. We extract metadata about events from Twitter and bring related news and Wikipedia articles to the user. In developing Twitris, we have used the DBPedia ontology.

%B Semantic Web Challenge at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) %C Washington DC, USA %G eng