TopicSketch: Real-time Bursty Topic Detection from Twitter

• Main Authors: XIE, Wei, ZHU, Feida, Jing JIANG, LIM, Ee-Peng, WANG, Ke
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Realtime; TopicSketch; Tweet stream; bursty topic; Twitter; Real-time systems; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3200
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Twitter has become one of the largest microblogging platforms for users around the world to share anything happening around them with friends and beyond. A bursty topic in Twitter is one that triggers a surge of relevant tweets within a short period of time, which often reflects important events of...