Revealing the hidden links in content networks: An application to event discovery

Antonia Saravanou, Ioannis Katakis, George Valkanas, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos

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Abstract

Social networks have become the de facto online resource for people to share, comment on and be informed about events pertinent to their interests and livelihood, ranging from road tra?c or an illness to concerts and earthquakes, to economics and politics. This has been the driving force behind research endeavors that analyze such data. In this paper, we focus on how Content Networks can help us identify events effectively. Content Networks incorporate both structural and content-related information of a social network in a unified way, at the same time, bringing together two disparate lines of research: graph-based and content-based event discovery in social media. We model interactions of two types of nodes, users and content, and introduce an algorithm that builds heterogeneous, dynamic graphs, in addition to revealing content links in the network's structure. By linking similar content nodes and tracking connected components over time, we can effectively identify different types of events. Our evaluation on social media streaming data suggests that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, while showcasing the significance of hidden links to the quality of the results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2283-2286
Number of pages4
VolumePart F131841
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349185
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 6 Nov 201710 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/11/1710/11/17

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