BursT: a dynamic term weighting scheme for mining microblogging messages

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Hong Lee;Chih-Hong Wu;Tzan-Feng Chien

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • ISNN'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advances in neural networks - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

One of the basic human needs is to exchange information and socialize with each other. Online microblogging services such as Twitter allow users to post very short messages related to everything ranging from mundane daily life routines to breaking news events. A key challenging issue of mining such social messages is how to analyze the real-time distributed messages and extract significant features of them in a dynamic environment. In this work, we propose a novel term weighting method, called BursT, using sliding window techniques for weighting message streams. The experimental results show that our weighting technique has an outstanding performance to reflect the shifts of concept drift. The result of this work can be extended to perform a periodic feature extraction, and also be able to integrate other sophisticated clustering methods to enhance the efficiency for real-time event mining in social networks.