Burst Topic Detection in Real Time Spatial–Temporal Data Stream

In the field of social network, fast detection of the burst topic plays a decisive role in emergency response and disposal. However, social data are noisy and sparse, which evolves with time going on and space changing make it difficult to catch the instant semantics with traditional methods. Instead of passively waiting for an emergency topic, we try to detect the latent burst topic in its budding stage. In this paper, we propose a fast burst topic detect method, namely, FBTD, which aligns data prediction with characteristic calculation to detect burst term from the real-time spatial–temporal data stream and integrates local topic detection with global topic detection to find the spatial–temporal burst topic. Our method controls the delay within a 0.1 s level while preserving the topic quality. The experiments show that preferable effects are procured, and our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches in terms of effectiveness.