Feature selection for event discovery in social media: A comparative study

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Highlights：

• We analyze five feature selection methods for event discovery in social media.

• We present an improved feature selection method.

• We conduct comparative experiments on a real dataset using various metrics.

• We discuss the choosing of appropriate feature selection methods for microblogs.

摘要

•We analyze five feature selection methods for event discovery in social media.•We present an improved feature selection method.•We conduct comparative experiments on a real dataset using various metrics.•We discuss the choosing of appropriate feature selection methods for microblogs.

论文关键词：Microblog,Event discovery,Feature selection,Algorithm comparison

论文评审过程：Available online 3 December 2014, Version of Record 29 July 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.007