Papers are about selling ideas, so frame the problem in a domain they are intere

sted in.
Get out of twitter. Get beyond that simple domain of tweet analysis. We are conc
erned with the essencse of events, how can we extract signals from all textual a
nd non texutual events and how do they relate (syntactically).
So we understand topics, neighther g... works
1. maybe no generic way
2. ...
3. what is an event
Corpora -> topics -> numeric
detection -> summarization -> association
(ex: spurs win the championchip, perhaps a huge swell in spurs fans, can nike pr
edict gains in gear etc, that wasn't a great example he said but just talking ab
out the general idea of association, making meaning out of our previous steps).
So we can't predict events but we can extract indicators to forecast (twitter, e
tc). So "less after the fact" and have quicker prediction of big events, ex: all
ocate space for servers after a WC win, so near real time event detection.
His domain is EE, so he sees the world in signals, this is my focus. Time series
analysis + signal processing.
Imagine a graph of various signals... can we make any sense of certain related p
oints, do they have any predictive power? Perhaps we can see a switch of context
at a certain point.
Imagine a huge peak in some data, that is obviously an event. If we analyzed the
peak it would be broken down into sub events, how can we associate or figure ou
t relations. There are various tools for contextual meaning, SVM or TM but I thi
nk we are on about something else.