Detecting Cybersecurity Events from Noisy Short Text (N19-1)

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Challenge: Using domain-specific word embeddings, we propose a method to detect cyber security events from noisy short text.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages domain-specific word embeddings and task-specific features to detect cyber security events from tweets.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms both baselines and traditional models on a dataset of 2K tweets and manually annotates them.

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