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SEA: A system for event analysis on Chinese tweets

  • Yaqiong Wang
  • , Hongfu Liu
  • , Hao Lin
  • , Junjie Wu*
  • , Zhiang Wu
  • , Jie Cao
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Nanjing University of Finance & Economics

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

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the explosive growth of online social media. Weibo, a famous "Chinese Twitter", has attracted over 0.5 billion users in less than four years, with more than 1000 tweets generated in every second. These tweets are informative but very fragmented, and thus would be better archived from an event perspective, as done by Weibo itself in the "Micro-Topic"program. This effort, however, is yet far from satisfaction for not providing enough analytical power to events. In light of this, in this demo paper, we propose SEA, a System for Event Analysis on Chinese tweets. In general, SEA is an event-centric, multi-functional platform that conducts panoramic analysis on Weibo events from various aspects, including the semantic information of the events, the temporal and spatial trends, the public sentiments, the hidden sub-events, the key users in the event diffusion and their preferences, etc. These functions are enabled by the integration of various analytical models and by the NoSQL techniques adopted purposefully for massive tweets management. Finally, a case study on the "Spring Festival" event demonstrates the effectiveness of SEA. To our best knowledge, SEA is the first third-party system that provides panoramic analysis to Weibo events.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
EditorsRajesh Parekh, Jingrui He, Dhillon S. Inderjit, Paul Bradley, Yehuda Koren, Rayid Ghani, Ted E. Senator, Robert L. Grossman, Ramasamy Uthurusamy
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1498-1501
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450321747
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Aug 2013
Event19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2013 - Chicago, United States
Duration: 11 Aug 2013 → 14 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
VolumePart F128815

Conference

Conference19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period11/08/13 → 14/08/13

Keywords

  • Chinese tweets
  • Event analysis
  • Public sentiments
  • Weibo

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