Proceedings:
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 5
Volume
Issue:
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Track:
Poster Papers
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Abstract:
User-contributed messages on social media sites such as Twitter have emerged aspowerful, real-time means of information sharing on the Web. These short messages tend to reflect a variety of events in real time, making Twitter particularly well suited as a source of real-time event content. In this paper, we explore approaches for analyzing the stream of Twitter messages to distinguish between messages about real-world events andnon-event messages. Our approach relies on a rich family of aggregatestatistics of topically similar message clusters. Large-scale experiments over millions of Twitter messages show the effectiveness of our approach for surfacing real-world event content on Twitter.
DOI:
10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14146
ICWSM
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media