Eddi: Interactive topic-based browsing of social status streams

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Event ACM UIST 2010

Authors

Suh, Bongwon
Lichan Hong
Sanjay Kairam
Chi, Ed H.
Technical Publications
October 6th 2010
Twitter streams are on overload: active users receive hundreds of items per day, and existing interfaces force us to march through a chronologically-ordered morass to find tweets of interest. We present an approach to organizing a user's own feed into coherently clustered trending topics for more directed exploration. Our Twitter client, called Eddi, groups tweets in a users feed into topics mentioned explicitly or implicitly, which users can then browse for items of interest. To implement this topic clustering, we have developed a novel algorithm for discovering topics in short status updates powered by linguistic syntactic transformation and callouts to a search engine. An algorithm evaluation reveals that search engine callouts outperform other approaches when they employ simple syntactic transformation and backoff strategies. Active Twitter users evaluated Eddi and found it to be a more efficient and enjoyable way to browse an overwhelming status update feed than the standard chronological interface.

Citation

Bernstein, M.; Suh, B.; Hong, L.; Chen, J.; Kairam, S.; Chi, E. H. Eddi: Interactive topic-based browsing of social status streams. 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST); 2010 October 3-6; New York, NY. NY: ACM; 2010; 303-312.

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