In the event of a natural disaster like a flood, news outlets are in a rush to produce coverage for the general public. People may want a clear, concise summary of the event without having to read through hundreds of ...

The IDEAL (Integrated Digital Event Archiving and Library) and Global Event and Trend Archive Research (GETAR) projects have collected over 1.5 billion tweets, and webpages from social media and the World Wide Web and ...

ETDSeer (electronic thesis and dissertation digital library connected with SeerSuite) will build on 15 years of collaboration between teams at Virginia Tech (VT) and Penn State University (PSU), since both have been leaders ...

The Collection Management Webpages team is responsible for collecting, processing, and storing webpages from different sources. Our team worked on familiarizing ourselves with the necessary tools and data required to produce ...

The goal of this project is to leverage microblogging data about the stock market to predict price trends and execute trades based on these predictions. Predicting the price trends of stocks with microblogging data involves ...

As the Collection Management Tweets team in the Fall 2016 CS5604 class, we were responsible for processing >1.2 billion tweets, including data transfer, noise reduction, tweet augmentation, and storage via several technologies. ...

Information Retrieval systems are a common tool for building research and disseminating knowledge. For this to be possible, these systems must be able to effectively show varying amounts of relevant information to the ...

Social media and Web data are becoming important sources of information for researchers to monitor and study global events. GETAR, led by Dr. Edward Fox, is a project aiming to collect, organize, browse, visualize, ...

This report gives a detailed overview of the archiving services developed by the News Event Detection Website Group in the Virginia Tech Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access capstone. Our group developed a framework ...

Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search are both national programs housed at Virginia Tech to encourage and assist high school students in college admission preparation. This project was assigned with the goal of updating ...