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Who Should We Be Listening to? Applying Models of User Authority to Detecting Emerging Topics on the EIN
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Emerging event detection is the process of automatically identifying novel and emerging ideas from text with minimal human intervention. With the rise of social networks like Twitter, topic detection has begun leveraging measures of user influence… read more… to identify emerging events. Twitter's highly skewed follower/followee structure lends itself to an intuitive … to identify emerging events. Twitter’s highly skewed follower/followee structure lends itself to an intuitive … 1000 random trials of selecting subsets of 80 users to follow. For evaluation, we used an annotated set of EIN …