Real Time Event Detection in Twitter

• Main Authors: WANG, Xun, ZHU, Feida, JIANG, Jing, LI, Sujian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: HDP; Gaussian mixture; Twitter; event detection; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1820; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2819/viewcontent/C51___Real_Time_Event_Detection_in_Twitter__WAIM2013_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Event detection has been an important task for a long time. When it comes to Twitter, new problems are presented. Twitter data is a huge temporal data flow with much noise and various kinds of topics. Traditional sophisticated methods with a high computational complexity aren’t designed to handle su...