Link parkin’: “Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media”, by Kim, Xie, and Christen.
In this paper, we propose a method for identifying real-world events on social media, and present observations about event diffusion patterns across diverse media types such as news, blogs, and social networking sites. We first construct an event registry based on the Wikipedia portal of global news events, and we represent each real-world event with entities that embody the 5W1H (e.g., organization, person name, place) used in news coverage. We then label each web document with the list of identified events based on entity similarity between them.
Mostly interesting in how it uses Wikipedia events pages, and basic entity extraction, as a reference registry for events.