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01-12-2016 | Review Article

A survey of event detection techniques in online social networks

Authors: Anuradha Goswami, Ajey Kumar

Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

The online social networks (OSNs) have become an important platform for detecting real-world event in recent years. These real-world events are detected by analyzing huge social-stream data available on different OSN platforms. Event detection has become significant because it contains substantial information which describes different scenarios during events or crisis. This information further helps to enable contextual decision making, regarding the event location, content and the temporal specifications. Several studies exist, which offers plethora of frameworks and tools for detecting and analyzing events used for applications like crisis management, monitoring and predicting events in different OSN platforms. In this paper, a survey is done for event detection techniques in OSN based on social text streams—newswire, web forums, emails, blogs and microblogs, for natural disasters, trending or emerging topics and public opinion-based events. The work done and the open problems are explicitly mentioned for each social stream. Further, this paper elucidates the list of event detection tools available for the researchers.
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Metadata
Title
A survey of event detection techniques in online social networks
Authors
Anuradha Goswami
Ajey Kumar
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Social Network Analysis and Mining / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1869-5450
Electronic ISSN: 1869-5469
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0414-1

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