Detecting New Events from Microblogs Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Online social networks turn out to be a potential data source to discover worthwhile information from microblogs. Conversely, time-critical exploration of microblog data during catastrophic events such as flood, cyclone, forest fire, and violence carries critical challenges to machine learning techniques. For instance, the microblog from Twitter is utilized to identify event along with its location-specific orientation. In this paper, convolution neural network (CNN) technique is used to identify the retrospective event from the microblog. The existing state of-the-art classification methodologies require substantial volume of labeled data detailed to an unambiguous event during training phase. In addition, it requires feature to attain better outcomes. During the experiments, the n-gram CNN model is trained from the tweets intended for multi-class tweet classification which was related to the specified events in the past without feature engineering. The proposed CNN shows the event detection high accuracy which in turn yields improved performance when compared with other state-of-the-art methods.