Sp Global, Inc.

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company

Xiaomo Lu

Sameena Shah

Armineh Nourbakhsh

Grace Bang

Zhiqiang Ma

Quanzhi Li

Azadeh Nematzadeh

Reginald Chua

Rui Fang

Qi Li

Predicting the impact of controversial events on an entity, such as a company, can indicate the entity's ability to operate successfully in the future and optimize long-term value. This specification describes systems and methods to detect controversial events, identify the context of an event, measure the scope of the event, measure its current impact on the entity's performance, and predict the event's future impact on the entity's performance.

Controversy detection, impact assessment and impact prediction based on social media data

Systems and techniques for detecting and verifying social media events are disclosed. The system and techniques allow for processing of social media data to extract potentially valuable information in a timely manner and determine the veracity of the detected information. One implementation of the disclosure relates to event detection. Event detection involves ingestion and processing of social media data. Another implementation of the disclosure relates to verification of a detected event and generating a verification score.

Social media events detection and verification

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