Explicit and Implicit Data Augmentation for Social Event Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04202v1
• Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:26:24 GMT
• Title: Explicit and Implicit Data Augmentation for Social Event Detection
• Authors: Congbo Ma, Yuxia Wang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Jing Du, Zitai Qiu, Qing Li, Hu Wang, Preslav Nakov,
• Abstract summary: Social event detection involves identifying and categorizing important events from social media.<n>We propose Augmentation framework for Social Event Detection (SED-Aug)<n>SED-Aug combines explicit text-based and implicit feature-space augmentation to enhance data diversity and model robustness.
• Score: 61.929049997741735
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Social event detection involves identifying and categorizing important events from social media, which relies on labeled data, but annotation is costly and labor-intensive. To address this problem, we propose Augmentation framework for Social Event Detection (SED-Aug), a plug-and-play dual augmentation framework, which combines explicit text-based and implicit feature-space augmentation to enhance data diversity and model robustness. The explicit augmentation utilizes large language models to enhance textual information through five diverse generation strategies. For implicit augmentation, we design five novel perturbation techniques that operate in the feature space on structural fused embeddings. These perturbations are crafted to keep the semantic and relational properties of the embeddings and make them more diverse. Specifically, SED-Aug outperforms the best baseline model by approximately 17.67% on the Twitter2012 dataset and by about 15.57% on the Twitter2018 dataset in terms of the average F1 score. The code is available at GitHub: https://github.com/congboma/SED-Aug.

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