Identifying event-related bursts via social media activities

  • Authors:
  • Wayne Xin Zhao;Baihan Shu;Jing Jiang;Yang Song;Hongfei Yan;Xiaoming Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University;Peking University;Singapore Management University;Peking University;Peking University;Peking University

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Activities on social media increase at a dramatic rate. When an external event happens, there is a surge in the degree of activities related to the event. These activities may be temporally correlated with one another, but they may also capture different aspects of an event and therefore exhibit different bursty patterns. In this paper, we propose to identify event-related bursts via social media activities. We study how to correlate multiple types of activities to derive a global bursty pattern. To model smoothness of one state sequence, we propose a novel function which can capture the state context. The experiments on a large Twitter dataset shows our methods are very effective.