Ontology Based Approach for Event Detection in Twitter Datastreams

In this paper, we present a system that attempts to interpret relations in social media data based on automatically constructed dataset-specific ontology. Twitter data pertaining to the real world events such as the launch of products and the buzz generated by it, among the users of Twitter for developing a prototype of the system. Twitter data is filtered using certain tag-words which are used to build an ontology, based on extracted entities. Wikipedia data on the entities are collected and processed semantically to retrieve inherent relations and properties. The system uses these results to discover related entities and the relationships between them. We present the results of experiments to show how the system was able to effectively construct the ontology and discover inherent relationships between the entities belonging to two different datasets.