... Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 69–72,Avignon, France, April 23 - 27 2012.c2012 Association for Computational LinguisticsA Support Platform for Event Detection using ... with facility for rich user interaction.Our starting in the development of this systemwas the Ushahidi platform, 1which has high up-take for social media surveillance and informationdissemination ... pub-lish/filter information (selecting to publish cer-tain information publicly or privately to certaingroups, and selecting which users to follow),and real-time nature (information “push”...