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Event summarization for sports games using Twitter streams
Huang Y., Shen C., Li T. World Wide Web21 (3):609-627,2018.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Jul 9 2018

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Jason Gay titled “How Twitter Rules the NBA” [1]. It contends that the National Basketball Association (NBA) is heavily linked to social media, especially Twitter. This newspaper article relates heavily to the journal paper under review, which focuses on the use of Twitter feeds to summarize what is taking place at sporting events, specifically using basketball as an example.

It seems that microblogging about an event in Twitter’s 140 characters helps “keep people informed and updated” about real-world events, in real time, through user-contributed messages. This is how many users, including newsagents, organizations, public figures, and ordinary individuals, get their information. Hence, the big question: how does one eliminate the “noise” from the millions of tweets? The authors present an event summarization method that detects and captures the important moments as an event unfolds, in a progressive manner, in the “twitterverse.”

With the use of figures, tables, and equations, the authors provide a framework whereby their participant-centered event summarization has the following key components: “participant detection, sub-event detection, and summary generation.” They use five NBA games as the events under review and experimentation, and through user input they are able to observe the games as they unfold. Of course, the accuracy of the accounts depends on whether the millions of tweets being observed are representative.

The paper is an interesting one, but the reader can get very distracted due to typographical errors. Many sentences have double verbs or are missing articles and prepositions, making concentration difficult.

Regardless, the authors recognize that, as social media platforms like Twitter become more prevalent, there are many avenues for further research, including “hotel reviews, disaster management, and identification recognition.” Such social media is heavily used in reality shows like American Idol and The Voice, as well as in politics (for example, President Trump’s use of Twitter to communicate with constituents). It would therefore be interesting to apply the authors’ methodology to other events in the “twitterspace” beyond basketball.

Reviewer:  Cecilia G. Manrique Review #: CR146132 (1810-0542)
1) Gay, J. How Twitter rules the NBA. Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-twitter-rules-the-nba-1527787033.
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