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Emerging event detection in social networks with location sensitivity

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With the increasing number of real-world events that are originated and discussed over social networks, event detection is becoming a compelling research issue. However, the traditional approaches to event detection on large text streams are not designed to deal with a large number of short and noisy messages. This paper proposes an approach for the early detection of emerging hotspot events in social networks with location sensitivity. We consider the message-mentioned locations for identifying the locations of events. In our approach, we identify strong correlations between user locations and event locations in detecting the emerging events. We evaluate our approach based on a real-world Twitter dataset. Our experiments show that the proposed approach can effectively detect emerging events with respect to user locations that have different granularities.

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    Sayan Unankard, Xue Li & Mohamed A. Sharaf

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Unankard, S., Li, X. & Sharaf, M.A. Emerging event detection in social networks with location sensitivity. World Wide Web 18, 1393–1417 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-014-0291-3

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