Time series analysis for event detection in text data

Zhu, Rongda

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Title

Time series analysis for event detection in text data

Author(s)

Zhu, Rongda

Issue Date

2016-04-25

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Zhai, ChengXiang

Department of Study

Computer Science

Discipline

Computer Science

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

Event detection

Abstract

With the rise of social media and online newswire, text streams are attracting more and more research interest. These streams are presented in the form of time series by nature, therefore, how to efficiently analyze these time series and extract useful information from them are of great importance. Modern time series analysis (TSA) has been applied widely in areas such as finance, physics and signal processing, however, there is not so much working exploring time series analysis in the field of text mining. While traditional time series analysis tasks are relatively well defined such as modeling and forecasting, we now need to adapt the tasks to meet the requirement of different text mining problems. Event detection is the general task of finding any emerging events, such as significant changes in stock price, anomalies in climate data, and outbreaks of a certain disease, depending on the data we are interested in. While in text mining, event detection, which is identifying the significant new stories, is attracting more research attention given the increasing popularity of social media and digital journalism. In time series analysis, there is also a common task, change point detection, which focuses on a similar challenge. In this thesis work, we first examine the features presented by the time series of counts of terms in corpus. We then explore applying existing change point detection methods to event detection, and also propose a novel TSA based method for event detection.

Graduation Semester

2016-05

Type of Resource

text

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