Event Detection in Twitter

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Twitter, as a form of social media, is fast emerging in recent years. The remaining words are then clustered to form events with a modularity-based graph partitioning technique.

🔑 Key Findings

• Users are using Twitter to report real-life events.
• This paper focuses on detecting those events by analyzing the text stream in Twitter.
• Although event detection has long been a research topic, the characteristics of Twitter make it a non-trivial task.

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