Detecting real-time burst topics in microblog streams: how sentiment can help

  • Authors:
  • Lumin Zhang;Yan Jia;Bin Zhou;Yi Han

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;Peking University & National University of Defense Technology, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Microblog has become an increasing valuable resource of up-to-date topics about what is happening in the world. In this paper, we propose a novel approach of detecting real-time events in microblog streams based on bursty sentiments detection. Instead of traditional sentiment orientation like positive, negative and neutral, we use sentiment vector as our sentiment model to abstract subjective messages which are then used to detect bursts and clustered into new events. Experimental evaluations show that our approach could perform effectively for online event detection. Although we worked with Chinese in our research, the technique can be used with any other language.