Twitter is a well known source of information regarding
breaking news stories. This aspect of Twitter makes it ideal
for identifying events as they happen. However, a key problem
with Twitter-driven event detection approaches is that
they produce many spurious events, i.e., events that are
wrongly detected or simply are of no interest to anyone.
In this paper, we examine whether Wikipedia (when viewed
as a stream of page views) can be used to improve the quality
of discovered events in Twitter. Our results suggest that
Wikipedia...
