A comprehensive study of online event tracking algorithms in social networks

Abstract

Recently, social networks have provided an important platform to detect trends of real-world events. The trends of real-world events are detected by analysing flow of massive bulks of data in continuous time steps over various social media platforms. Today, many researchers have been interested in detecting social network trends, in order to analyse the gathered information for enabling users and organisations to satisfy their information need. This article is aimed at complete surveying the recent text-based trend detection approaches, which have been studied from three perspectives (algorithms, dimension and diversity of events). The advantages and disadvantages of the considered approaches have also been paraphrased separately to illustrate a comprehensive view of the previous works and open problems.