Multi-spatial Scale Event Detection from Geo-tagged Tweet Streams via Power-law Verification
Yi Han, Shanika Karunasekera, Christopher Leckie, Aaron Harwood

TL;DR
This paper investigates the statistical properties of geo-tagged tweet streams for multi-spatial event detection, demonstrating that power-law distributions characterize event-related bursts and proposing algorithms leveraging this for improved detection accuracy.
Contribution
The paper introduces two novel algorithms for event detection from tweet streams based on power-law verification, integrating semantic analysis for enhanced performance.
Findings
Power-law distributions are prevalent in event-related tweet bursts.
Power-law based algorithms achieve high detection accuracy.
Semantic analysis improves precision and recall.
Abstract
Compared with traditional news media, social media nowadays provides a richer and more timely source of news. We are interested in multi-spatial level event detection from geo-tagged tweet streams. Specifically, in this paper we (1) examine the statistical characteristic for the time series of the number of geo-tagged tweets posted from specific regions during a short time interval, e.g., ten seconds or one minute; (2) verify from over thirty datasets that while almost all such time series exhibit self-similarity, those that correspond to events, especially short-term and unplanned outbursts, follow a power-law distribution; (3) demonstrate that these findings can be applied to facilitate event detection from tweet streams. We propose two algorithms---Power-law basic and Power-law advanced, where Power-law basic only checks the existence of power-law distributions in the time series…
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Taxonomy
TopicsComplex Network Analysis Techniques · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
