Characterizing and Predicting Bursty Events: The Buzz Case Study on Twitter

Mohamed Morchid, Georges Linarès, Richard Dufour

Abstract
The prediction of bursty events on the Internet is a challenging task. Difficulties are due to the diversity of information sources, the size of the Internet, dynamics of popularity, user behaviors... On the other hand, Twitter is a structured and limited space. In this paper, we present a new method for predicting bursty events using content-related indices. Prediction is performed by a neural network that combines three features in order to predict the number of retweets of a tweet on the Twitter platform. The indices are related to popularity, expressivity and singularity. Popularity index is based on the analysis of RSS streams. Expressivity uses a dictionary that contains words annotated in terms of expressivity load. Singularity represents outlying topic association estimated via a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposal with a 72% F-measure prediction score for the tweets that have been forwarded at least 60 times.
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L14-1196
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2766–2771
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/19_Paper.pdf
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Mohamed Morchid, Georges Linarès, and Richard Dufour. 2014. Characterizing and Predicting Bursty Events: The Buzz Case Study on Twitter. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2766–2771, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Characterizing and Predicting Bursty Events: The Buzz Case Study on Twitter (Morchid et al., LREC 2014)
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