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Tweets about everyday events are published on Twitter. Detecting such events is a challenging task due to the diverse and noisy contents of Twitter. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named Weighted Dynamic Heartbeat Graph (WDHG) to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Zafar Saeed , Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi , Muhammad Imran Razzak , Guandong Xu

Social media is widely used to share information globally and it also aids to gain attention from the world. When socially sensitive incidents like rape, human rights march, corruption, political controversy, chemical attacks occur, they…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Pramod Bide , Sudhir Dhage , Mohammed Afaan Ansari , Rudresh Veerkhare

Event detection using social media streams needs a set of informative features with strong signals that need minimal preprocessing and are highly associated with events of interest. Identifying these informative features as keywords from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ahmad Hany Hossny , Lewis Mitchell

Twitter has become one of the main sources of news for many people. As real-world events and emergencies unfold, Twitter is abuzz with hundreds of thousands of stories about the events. Some of these stories are harmless, while others could…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Soroush Vosoughi , Deb Roy

Event detection has been one of the most important research topics in social media analysis. Most of the traditional approaches detect events based on fixed temporal and spatial resolutions, while in reality events of different scales…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Xiaowen Dong , Dimitrios Mavroeidis , Francesco Calabrese , Pascal Frossard

The increasing use of social networks generates enormous amounts of data that can be used for many types of analysis. Some of these data have temporal and geographical information, which can be used for comprehensive examination. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Augusto Dias Pereira dos Santos , Leandro Krug Wives , Luis Otavio Alvares

Tweet clustering for event detection is a powerful modern method to automate the real-time detection of events. In this work we present a new tweet clustering approach, using a probabilistic approach to incorporate temporal information. By…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Peter Mathews , Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Giang T. Nguyen , Nigel G. Bean

Social media channels such as Twitter have emerged as popular platforms for crowds to respond to public events such as speeches, sports and debates. While this promises tremendous opportunities to understand and make sense of the reception…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Yuheng Hu , Ajita John , Fei Wang , Doree Duncan Seligmann , Subbarao Kambhampati

Twitter (one example of microblogging) is widely being used by researchers to understand human behavior, specifically how people behave when a significant event occurs and how it changes user microblogging patterns. The changing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Usman Anjum , Vladimir Zadorozhny , Prashant Krishnamurthy

The detection of anomalies in real time is paramount to maintain performance and efficiency across a wide range of applications including web services and smart manufacturing. This paper presents a novel algorithm to detect anomalies in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Caitríona M. Ryan , Andrew Parnell , Catherine Mahoney

Event detection is a critical task for timely decision-making in graph analytics applications. Despite the recent progress towards deep learning on graphs, event detection on dynamic graphs presents particular challenges to existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Mert Kosan , Arlei Silva , Sourav Medya , Brian Uzzi , Ambuj Singh

A small survey on event detection using Twitter. This work first defines the problem statement, and then summarizes and collates the different research works towards solving the problem.

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Debanjan Datta

Identifying user stance related to a political event has several applications, like determination of individual stance, shaping of public opinion, identifying popularity of government measures and many others. The huge volume of political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Roshni Chakraborty , Maitry Bhavsar , Sourav Kumar Dandapat , Joydeep Chandra

Event detection (ED) identifies and classifies event triggers from unstructured texts, serving as a fundamental task for information extraction. Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the past several years, most research efforts focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiangyu Xi , Jianwei Lv , Shuaipeng Liu , Wei Ye , Fan Yang , Guanglu Wan

It is part of our daily social-media experience that seemingly ordinary items (videos, news, publications, etc.) unexpectedly gain an enormous amount of attention. Here we investigate how unexpected these events are. We propose a method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-09 José M. Miotto , Eduardo G. Altmann

Event detection in a multimodal Twitter dataset is considered. We treat the hashtags in the dataset as instances with two modes: text and geolocation features. The text feature consists of a bag-of-words representation. The geolocation…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-17 Yasin Yilmaz , Alfred Hero

Twitter is recognized as a crucial platform for the dissemination and gathering of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). Its capability to provide real-time, actionable intelligence makes it an indispensable tool for detecting security events,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jian Cui , Hanna Kim , Eugene Jang , Dayeon Yim , Kicheol Kim , Yongjae Lee , Jin-Woo Chung , Seungwon Shin , Xiaojing Liao

Nowadays, millions of people interact on a daily basis on online social media like Facebook and Twitter, where they share and discuss information about a wide variety of topics. In this paper, we focus on a specific online social network,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-06 Elisa Omodei , Manlio De Domenico , Alex Arenas

Despite the significant efforts made by the research community in recent years, automatically acquiring valuable information about high impact-events from social media remains challenging. We present EviDense, a graph-based approach for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Oana Balalau , Carlos Castillo , Mauro Sozio

In social network Twitter, users can interact with each other and spread information via retweets. These millions of interactions may result in media events whose influence goes beyond Twitter framework. In this paper, we thoroughly explore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Audrey Wilmet , Robin Lamarche-Perrin