Identifying Event-related Bursts via Social Media Activities

• Main Authors: ZHAO, Xin, Shu, Baihan, JIANG, Jing, SONG, YANG, YAN, Hongfei, LI, Xiaoming
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1621; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2620/viewcontent/jingjiang2.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 dif...