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Adjustable Time-Window-Based event detection on twitter

  • Qinyi Wang
  • , Jieying She
  • , Tianshu Song
  • , Yongxin Tong*
  • , Lei Chen
  • , Ke Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Twitter has become an important platform for reporting breaking news and instant events. However, it is almost impossible to detect events on Twitter manually due to the large volume of data and the noise in them. Though automatic event detection has been studied a lot, most works can only detect events in a fixed time window. In this paper, we propose an efficient system that can detect events in adjustable time windows. We detect terms with unusual frequency and group them into events. We further modify a segment tree data structure to support adjustable time window based event detection, which can efficiently aggregate statistics of terms of varied-sized time windows and is both space and time saving. We finally validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed techniques through extensive experiments on real datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb-Age Information Management - 17th International Conference, WAIM 2016, Proceedings
EditorsBin Cui, Xiang Lian, Dexi Liu, Nan Zhang, Jianliang Xu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages265-278
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319399577
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016 - Nanchang, China
Duration: 3 Jun 2016 → 5 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9659
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanchang
Period3/06/16 → 5/06/16

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