Market Driven Innovations and Scaling up of Twitris

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This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating Twitris’ collective social media intelligence technology to capabilities well beyond current state-of-the-art social media monitoring and analysis tools. The Twitris platform is important because it can provide collective exploitation of real-time social media streams, and a variety of relevant knowledge, to significantly improve decision-making and support timely actions in various domains of economic, human, and social development. Twitris’ unique features include real-time semantic analysis of social media content along spatio-temporal-thematic, people-content-network, and sentiment-emotion-intent dimensions. These features result in deeper, contextually-relevant analysis and actionable insights when compared to the leading competing technology in this market space. This project will result in a scale-up of Twitris.

This project addresses several technology gaps as it transitions Twitris from a research prototype to a scaled-up technology capable of supporting commercial applications. Consequently, three areas of research and technology enhancement will be conducted: 1) enhancing the functionalities of Twitris with a broad range of location-specific processing that requires addressing the challenge of scarcity of spatial metadata on Twitter, 2) semantics-enhanced filtering and improved user experience for automatic and semi-automatic filtering of tweets, which requires addressing challenges such as content ambiguity and information overload, and 3) scalable architecture supporting domain-specific, knowledge-enabled modules to handle high volume, variety and velocity of data.

In addition, the project will also provide a unique education and training platform for students and recent graduates to prepare them for careers involving entrepreneurship and business and economic development, and careers in startups. Specifically, the project (a) bridges basic research with technology development and intellectual property development that can lead to successful commercialization and (b) involves close collaboration with successful entrepreneurs, business partners, and customers. It will also undertake structured educational activities involving five technical and business courses, while continuing to foster much-needed diversity in high-tech fields and computer science. This project engages several business partners in strategically-important markets to carry out trials involving their customers in an effort to evaluate the efficacy and benefits of research and technology enhancements involved in this scale-up.


People

Principal Investigators: Prof. Amit P. Sheth
Collaborators: Jeremy Brunn, Pavan Kapanipathi, Alan Smith

Funding

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  • NSF Award#: IIP 1542911
  • PFI:AIR-TT: Market-driven Innovations and Scaling up of Twitris - A System for Collective Social Intelligence
  • Timeline: 01 Oct 2015 - 31 Mar 2017
  • Award Amount: $200,000.

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Twitris is also being used for graduate courses in Computer Science, Internet Marketing, and Management Sciences.

This project is a follow-on to

I-Corps: Towards Commercialization of Twitris — a system for collective intelligence: (NSF IIP-1343041). Outcome summary video

Publications

  1. Kamer Yuksel, Sergio Biggemann, Amit Sheth, Jeremy Brunn (2016). Using Social Data to Understand Brand Development. Direct/Interactive Marketing Research Summit. Los Angeles, CA.
  2. Amit Sheth, Hemant Purohit, Gary Alan Smith, Jeremy Brunn, Ashutosh Jadhav, Pavan Kapanipathi, Chen Lu, Wenbo Wang (2018). Twitris: A System for Collective Social Intelligence. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining 2. Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne. Springer-Verlag New York. New York. ISBN: 978-1-4939-7132-9.
  3. Sanjaya Wijeratne, Shreyansh Bhatt, Lakshika Balasuriya, Hussein Al-Olimat, Manas Gaur, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, Amit Sheth (2017). Feature Engineering for Twitter-based Applications. Feature Engineering for Machine Learning and Data Analytics Guozhu Dong and Huan Liu. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
  4. Andrew Hampton, Shreyansh Bhatt, Alan Smith, Jeremy Brunn, Hemant Purohit, Valerie Shalin, John Flach, Amit Sheth (2017). Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise. 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2017). 181. ISSN: 2411-3387
  5. Michelle Miller, Tanvi Banerjee, RoopTeja Muppalla, William Romine, and Amit Sheth (2017). What Are People Tweeting About Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Its Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention. JMIR Public Health Surveillance. 3 (2), e38. PMID: 28630032
  6. Amit Sheth, Hemant Purohit, Gary Alan Smith, Jeremy Brunn, Ashutosh Jadhav, Pavan Kapanipathi, Chen Lu, Wenbo Wang (2018). Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining 2. Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne. Springer-Verlag New York. New York. Published. ISBN. 978-1-4939-7130-5.
  7. Andrew Hampton, Shreyansh Bhatt, Alan Smith, Jeremy Brunn, Hemant Purohit, Valerie Shalin, John Flach, Amit Sheth (2017). Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise. 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2017). 181.
  8. Michele Miller, Tanvi Banerjee, Roopteja Muppalla, William Romine, Amit Sheth (2017). What Are People Tweeting About Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Its Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention. 3. (2). JMIR Public Health Surveillance, 3. Published. DOI. 10.2196/publichealth.7157.
  9. Monireh Ebrahimi, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, and Amit Sheth (2017). Challenges of Sentiment Analysis for Dynamic Events. Magazine article in IEEE Intelligent Systems (Series: Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis Editor: Erik Cambria).
  10. Sanjaya Wijeratne, Shreyansh Bhatt, Lakshika Balasuriya, Hussein Al-Olimat, Manas Gaur, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, Amit Sheth (2018). Feature Engineering for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. Guozhu Dong and Huan Liu. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN. 9781138744387.
  11. Sarasi Lalithsena, Pavan Kapanipathi, Amit Sheth (2016). Harnessing Relationships for Domain-specific Subgraph Extraction: A Recommendation Use Case. IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Published. DOI. 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840663.

References

Twitris

News/Media

  1. WSU Lab Works to Mine Social Media Posts, Dayton Daily News, July 13, 2016. [PDF]

[Discusses commercialization effort for Twitris developed at Kno.e.sis by Dayton startup Cognovi Labs, and quotes Prof. Sheth.]

  1. The Twitris sentiment analysis tool by Cognovi Labs predicted the Brexit hours earlier than polls, TechCrunch, June 29, 2016. [PDF]

[Hours before the EU referendum votes closed and well before results were declared, Prof. Sheth’s analysis of Twitter data predicted #Brexit - votes for leave outpacing remain. Analysis was done using a campaign set up by Cognovi Labs that is powered by Twitris technology.]

  1. Donovan, J.J. The Twitris sentiment analysis tool by Cognovi Labs predicted the Brexit hours earlier than polls, TechCrunch, June 29, 2016.
 From the article: "Cognovi Labs is a new analytics startup that relies on Twitris, a Wright State University-developed tool that claims to be able to take a sample of social media chatter about a specific topic and deduce real-time, large-scale, automated sentiment about the specific topic they are researching. As a real-world example of the tool’s capability, the Cognovi Labs research team — led by Wright State University researcher (and Cognovi Labs inventor) Dr. Amit Sheth — analyzed Twitter chatter leading up to the Great Britain/European Union Membership Referendum (Brexit) on June 23. The team was able to predict some six hours before the news broke that the polls leaning toward the “remain” camp were incorrect."
  1. Cognovi Labs will study the presidential debates tonight with their emotional sentiment tool, TechCrunch, 09/26/2016
 (Live Blogging by TechCrunch, a very prominent technology Web-site, describing findings from real-time analysis using Twitris on social media (Twitter) data related to the 1st US Presidential Debate held on September 26, 2016. From the Web site: "Cognovi Labs is an analytics startup that relies on Twitris, a Wright State University-developed tool and is based in Dayton, OH.”)
  1. Sarah Ammar,Does Size Matter? How Accounting for Tweet Volume Impacts Sentiment Analysis and What That May Mean for the Election , Applied Policy Research Institute, 26 Sept 2016. (This blog by Applied Policy Research Institute (APRI) of Wright State University exlpores some texchnical analysis issues related to use of Twitris for real-time analysis of the 1st Presidential debate. From the Web page: "If you followed our live tweets, or those of our friends at Kno.e.sis or Cognovi Labs, you saw some interesting real-time data output about how Twitter users were responding to the candidates during last night’s debate.”)

Contact

Contact Prof. Amit P. Sheth for more details