Dataset: Events and periodicity analysis related to the paper 'Automatically identifying periodic social events from Twitter'

This dataset features information on all the events that were automatically extracted from Twitter and used as input to periodicity detection, as described in the paper: F. Kunneman and A. Van den Bosch (2015), Automatically identifying periodic social events from Twitter, Proceedings of the RANLP 2015 (pp. 320-328), http://hdl.handle.net/2066/143994 The paper describes approaches to identifying periodic events in Twitter. This dataset contains the output of these approaches, as well as a human assessment of the quality of a selection of the output. Apart from information on all the events, tweet ids are shared that can be used to query the tweets and all their meta-data from Twitter