Zhao et al, AAAI 07

This Paper is relevant to our project on detecting controversial events in Twitter.

Citation

Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, and Bi Chen. Temporal and information flow based event detection from social text streams. In Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2, pages 1501–1506. AAAI Press, 2007.

Online version

Temporal and information flow based event detection from social text streams

Summary

They experimented with the Topic Detection and Tracking corpus.

Related papers

There has been a lot of work on event detection.

• Lin et al, KDD 2011 This paper address a method to observe and track the popular events or topics that evolve over time in the communities.
• Popular Event Tracking A method that take both interest and network structure into account.
• Automatic Detection and Classification of Social Events This paper aims at detecting and classifying social events using Tree kernels.

Study plan

• Article: Group average agglomerative clustering [1]
• Article: Single pass clustering [2]