Multiscale Event Detection in Social Media
Xiaowen Dong, Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Francesco Calabrese, Pascal, Frossard

TL;DR
This paper introduces a multiscale event detection method for social media that leverages wavelet transforms to identify events across different temporal and spatial scales simultaneously, improving detection accuracy.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel wavelet-based multiscale event detection algorithm that handles multiple scales in social media data within a single clustering framework.
Findings
Effective detection of multiscale events demonstrated on Twitter data.
The approach outperforms fixed-scale methods in accuracy.
Spatiotemporal analysis improves noise filtering and event relevance.
Abstract
Event detection has been one of the most important research topics in social media analysis. Most of the traditional approaches detect events based on fixed temporal and spatial resolutions, while in reality events of different scales usually occur simultaneously, namely, they span different intervals in time and space. In this paper, we propose a novel approach towards multiscale event detection using social media data, which takes into account different temporal and spatial scales of events in the data. Specifically, we explore the properties of the wavelet transform, which is a well-developed multiscale transform in signal processing, to enable automatic handling of the interaction between temporal and spatial scales. We then propose a novel algorithm to compute a data similarity graph at appropriate scales and detect events of different scales simultaneously by a single graph-based…
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TopicsComplex Network Analysis Techniques · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
