Event detection and trending in multiple social networking sites

  • Authors:
  • Shakira Banu Kaleel;Meshary AlMeshary;Abdolreza Abhari

  • Affiliations:
  • Ryerson University;Ryerson University;Ryerson University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th Communications & Networking Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A continuous rise in popularity of social media motivates many people to express their opinions and news on the real-time basis. In this paper, the social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are considered as a platform for event detection. Since social information streams are sparse and continuous, the processing time and speed are vital while detecting events. We suggest a novel approach of discovering events from multiple social streams using widely used Euclidean realization of locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm. In our proposed method, the LSH is used twice in event detection. Firstly, it is used to obtain the events independently from both social streams. The cross-over events between social networks are detected by applying the algorithm one more time. The detected events can be trended to show their activeness on different networks. We explore a theoretical approach on the design of event detection and trending in multiple social sites.