1. GeoBurst+.
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Zhang, Chao, Lei, Dongming, Yuan, Quan, Zhuang, Honglei, Kaplan, Lance, Wang, Shaowen, and Han, Jiawei
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PUBLIC demonstrations ,DISASTERS ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,RIVERS ,CROWDSOURCING - Abstract
The real-time discovery of local events (e.g., protests, disasters) has been widely recognized as a fundamental socioeconomic task. Recent studies have demonstrated that the geo-tagged tweet stream serves as an unprecedentedly valuable source for local event detection. Nevertheless, how to effectively extract local events from massive geo-tagged tweet streams in real time remains challenging. To bridge the gap, we propose a method for effective and real-time local event detection from geo-tagged tweet streams. Our method, named GeoBurst+, first leverages a novel cross-modal authority measure to identify several pivots in the query window. Such pivots reveal different geo-topical activities and naturally attract similar tweets to form candidate events. GeoBurst+ further summarizes the continuous stream and compares the candidates against the historical summaries to pinpoint truly interesting local events. Better still, as the query window shifts, GeoBurst+ is capable of updating the event list with little time cost, thus achieving continuous monitoring of the stream. We used crowdsourcing to evaluate GeoBurst+ on two million-scale datasets and found it significantly more effective than existing methods while being orders of magnitude faster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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