Web 2.0 streams, like blog postings, micro-blogging tweets, or RSS feeds from online communities, offer a wealth of latest news about real-world events and societal discussion.
What do we do?
We have devised an approach to continuously monitor emergent topics over these streams. This website gives a first glimpse of it.
.... and how?
We continuously monitor correlations between pairs of tags/categories, and identify major shifts in correlations of previously uncorrelated tags/categories as the onset of a new topic