Exploiting Language Models to Classify Events from Twitter

Table 1

Some samples of discussed tweets in two events.

Category	Tweets	Relatedness with event
Event 1	: Amy Winehouse has passed away aged 27.	Yes
	: Amy Winehouse found dead at her home in North London.	Yes
	: Nelson Mandela, who led the peaceful transition from white-only rule, has died aged 95.	No
Event 2	: plane crash kills majority of KHL team Lokomotiv.	Yes
	: plane crash in Russia kills 36 or 37 assumed to be hockey player.	Yes
	: plane crash, helicopter, was in Moscow with 2 dead.	No