Hashtag-based sub-event discovery using mutually generative lda in twitter

Chen Xing, Yuan Wang, Jie Liu, Yalou Huang, Wei-Ying Ma

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

49 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Sub-event discovery is an effective method for social event analysis in Twitter. It can discover sub-events from large amount of noisy event-related information in Twitter and semantically represent them. The task is challenging because tweets are short, informal and noisy. To solve this problem, we consider leveraging event-related hashtags that contain many locations, dates and concise sub-event related descriptions to enhance sub-event discovery. To this end, we propose a hashtag-based mutually generative Latent Dirichlet Allocation model(MGe-LDA). In MGe-LDA, hashtags and topics of a tweet are mutually generated by each other. The mutually generative process models the relationship between hashtags and topics of tweets, and highlights the role of hashtags as a semantic representation of the corresponding tweets. Experimental results show that MGe-LDA can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods for sub-event discovery. © 2016, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
PublisherAAAI Press
Pages2666-2672
ISBN (Print)9781577357605
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 12 Feb 201617 Feb 2016

Publication series

Name30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016

Conference

Conference30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period12/02/1617/02/16

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