Title
What’s Happening Around the World? A Survey and Framework on Event Detection Techniques on Twitter
Abstract
In the last few years, Twitter has become a popular platform for sharing opinions, experiences, news, and views in real-time. Twitter presents an interesting opportunity for detecting events happening around the world. The content (tweets) published on Twitter are short and pose diverse challenges for detecting and interpreting event-related information. This article provides insights into ongoing research and helps in understanding recent research trends and techniques used for event detection using Twitter data. We classify techniques and methodologies according to event types, orientation of content, event detection tasks, their evaluation, and common practices. We highlight the limitations of existing techniques and accordingly propose solutions to address the shortcomings. We propose a framework called EDoT based on the research trends, common practices, and techniques used for detecting events on Twitter. EDoT can serve as a guideline for developing event detection methods, especially for researchers who are new in this area. We also describe and compare data collection techniques, the effectiveness and shortcomings of various Twitter and non-Twitter-based features, and discuss various evaluation measures and benchmarking methodologies. Finally, we discuss the trends, limitations, and future directions for detecting events on Twitter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10723-019-09482-2
Journal of Grid Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Events, Event detection, Twitter, Social media, Machine learning, Survey, Taxonomy, Framework
Data science,Data collection,Social media,Computer science,Happening,Benchmarking,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
2
1570-7873
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
25
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zafar Saeed130.71
Rabeeh Abbasi213515.82
Onaiza Maqbool323010.78
Abida Sadaf431.05
Muhammad Imran Razzak522133.86
Ali Daud631330.17
Naif Radi Aljohani715927.35
Guandong Xu864075.03