Now, software to get updates about live events from Twitter

A team of researchers from the department of computer science and engineering, IIT-B; Microsoft India; and Google has developed a software, Contextual Event Search,

A team of researchers from the department of computer science and engineering, IIT-B; Microsoft India; and Google has developed a software, Contextual Event Search, to scan live events from data streams such as Twitter and automatically generate summaries of the same in real time. The software discovers important sub-events related to that particular event and arranges them in chronologically. It can discard the non-relevant data. “We provide a framework to identify the important chunks from this fast-moving data stream as and when it is generated,” said Manoj Agarwal, one of the researchers.

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