@inproceedings{morchid-etal-2014-characterizing,
title = "Characterizing and Predicting Bursty Events: The Buzz Case Study on {T}witter",
author = "Morchid, Mohamed and
Linar{\`e}s, Georges and
Dufour, Richard",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/19_Paper.pdf",
pages = "2766--2771",
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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%A Morchid, Mohamed
%A Linarès, Georges
%A Dufour, Richard
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%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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Markdown (Informal)
[Characterizing and Predicting Bursty Events: The Buzz Case Study on Twitter](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/19_Paper.pdf) (Morchid et al., LREC 2014)
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