Trend sensing via Twitter
by Yavuz Selim Yilmaz; Muhammed Fatih Bulut; Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora; Murat Ali Bayir; Murat Demirbas
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 14, No. 1, 2013

Abstract: Due to its ever increasing popularity, Twitter has become a pervasive information outlet. In this paper, we present a passive sensing framework for identifying trends via Twitter. In our framework, we use a multi-dimensional corpus for fine-granularity sensing of trends, and employ both vector-space and set-space methods for achieving accuracy. We present two applications of our framework. The first one is sensing trends in public opinion by using an emotion-category corpus. The second application is sensing trends in location-types in a city by using a location-category corpus. Our experiments show that the proposed methods are able to determine changes in trends effectively in both application scenarios.

Online publication date: Fri, 06-Sep-2013

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