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Event detection, tracking, and visualization in Twitter: a mention-anomaly-based approach
The ever-growing number of people using Twitter makes it a valuable source of
timely information. However, detecting events in Twitter is a difficult task,
because tweets that report interesting events are overwhelmed by a large volume
of tweets on unrelated topics. Existing methods focus on the textual content of
tweets and ignore the social aspect of Twitter. In this paper we propose MABED
(i.e. mention-anomaly-based event detection), a novel statistical method that
relies solely on tweets and leverages the creation frequency of dynamic links
(i.e. mentions) that users insert in tweets to detect significant events and
estimate the magnitude of their impact over the crowd. MABED also differs from
the literature in that it dynamically estimates the period of time during which
each event is discussed, rather than assuming a predefined fixed duration for
all events. The experiments we conducted on both English and French Twitter
data show that the mention-anomaly-based approach leads to more accurate event
detection and improved robustness in presence of noisy Twitter content.
Qualitatively speaking, we find that MABED helps with the interpretation of
detected events by providing clear textual descriptions and precise temporal
descriptions. We also show how MABED can help understanding users' interest.
Furthermore, we describe three visualizations designed to favor an efficient
exploration of the detected events.Comment: 17 page
Attributed Network Embedding for Learning in a Dynamic Environment
Network embedding leverages the node proximity manifested to learn a
low-dimensional node vector representation for each node in the network. The
learned embeddings could advance various learning tasks such as node
classification, network clustering, and link prediction. Most, if not all, of
the existing works, are overwhelmingly performed in the context of plain and
static networks. Nonetheless, in reality, network structure often evolves over
time with addition/deletion of links and nodes. Also, a vast majority of
real-world networks are associated with a rich set of node attributes, and
their attribute values are also naturally changing, with the emerging of new
content patterns and the fading of old content patterns. These changing
characteristics motivate us to seek an effective embedding representation to
capture network and attribute evolving patterns, which is of fundamental
importance for learning in a dynamic environment. To our best knowledge, we are
the first to tackle this problem with the following two challenges: (1) the
inherently correlated network and node attributes could be noisy and
incomplete, it necessitates a robust consensus representation to capture their
individual properties and correlations; (2) the embedding learning needs to be
performed in an online fashion to adapt to the changes accordingly. In this
paper, we tackle this problem by proposing a novel dynamic attributed network
embedding framework - DANE. In particular, DANE first provides an offline
method for a consensus embedding and then leverages matrix perturbation theory
to maintain the freshness of the end embedding results in an online manner. We
perform extensive experiments on both synthetic and real attributed networks to
corroborate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed framework.Comment: 10 page
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