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ADAPT
In July 2014, the Football World Cup semi-final
between Germany and Brazil generated 35.6 million
tweets, a Twitter record at the time. Even the fastest
speed readers couldn’t keep up with that volume of
information. Thankfully researchers in the Science
Foundation funded ADAPT Centre for Digital Content
Technology developed the ‘Brazilator’, a live tweet
translation streaming service.
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The clever system tracked any tweets with #WorldCup
and #WC2014, translating them into the requested
language and even providing sentiment analysis for
the individual teams during matches. The technology
was more recently used during the Irish referendum
on marriage equality, the age of eligibility for election
to the Office of the President and the 2016 Irish
General Election.
www.adaptcentre.ie