Real Time Monitoring of Social Media and Digital Press

TL;DR

Talaia is a real-time social media and digital press monitoring platform that integrates configurable crawling, sentiment analysis, and visualization, demonstrated through cultural and political case studies.

Contribution

The paper introduces Talaia, a comprehensive system architecture for social media monitoring with domain-adaptable sentiment analysis and visualization tools.

Findings

Effective domain adaptation in sentiment analysis

Successful application in cultural and political domains

Validated system architecture through real use cases

Abstract

Talaia is a platform for monitoring social media and digital press. A configurable crawler gathers content with respect to user defined domains or topics. Crawled data is processed by means of the EliXa Sentiment Analysis system. A Django powered interface provides data visualization for a user-based analysis of the data. This paper presents the architecture of the system and describes in detail its different components. To prove the validity of the approach, two real use cases are accounted for: one in the cultural domain and one in the political domain. Evaluation for the sentiment analysis task in both scenarios is also provided, showing the capacity for domain adaptation.