构建首个融合互动结构的多事件社交媒体情绪时间序列基准
SURGE: An Event-Centric Social Media Sentiment Time Series Benchmark with Interaction Structure

- 自动构建跨事件、三粒度时间序列,保留帖子间互动结构
- 67个事件超80万条帖子,揭示回复密集期预测难度上升
- 适合研究社交互动对舆论演化影响的模型与评估
社交媒体上的公共事件引发大量讨论,其集体动态对舆论预测和危机响应具有直接价值。将碎片化帖子组织为事件级时间序列是捕捉动态演化的关键。现有数据集仅覆盖少数事件且通常忽略帖子间的互动结构,限制了跨事件迁移和对互动影响的可控研究。我们提出SURGE,一个包含事件级时间序列、对齐文本及帖子间互动结构的多事件基准。通过自动化流水线,SURGE生成三种时间粒度的时序数据,涵盖67个事件、超过80万条帖子,涉及五个事件类别。每个时间窗均配以扁平与结构化文本视图,支持对比分析互动结构是否影响预测行为。我们定义了四类基准协议:纯数值预测、文本增强预测、高互动性评估、跨类别泛化测试。实验表明:基准呈现强局部持续性,基础模型难以超越;现有文本增强模型在事件驱动数据上迁移能力有限;回复密集期的预测难度更高,但聚合指标常被掩盖。我们还提供轻量级结构感知探针作为参考实现,展示如何利用SURGE推动交互感知的预测研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Public events on social media generate large volumes of discussion whose collective dynamics carry direct value for opinion forecasting and crisis response. Capturing how these dynamics evolve across an event's lifecycle requires organizing fragmented posts into event-level time series. Existing datasets cover only a small number of events within a single category, and typically discard the interaction structure between posts when constructing time series, which restricts both transfer across event types and controlled study of how interactions shape the resulting collective dynamics. We present SURGE, a multi-event social media benchmark that pairs event-level time series with aligned text and interaction structure linking posts within an event. SURGE is built through an automated pipeline that produces calendar-aligned time series at three temporal granularities, covering 67 events and more than 800K posts across five event categories. Each time bin is paired with flat and structured textual views derived from the same selected posts, enabling controlled evaluation of whether social interaction structure affects forecasting behavior. On top of SURGE we define benchmark protocols for numerical-only forecasting, text-augmented forecasting, high-interaction evaluation, and leave-one-category-out generalization. Experiments with representative time-series and multimodal forecasting models reveal three properties of the benchmark: a strong local-persistence regime in which naive baselines remain hard to beat under absolute error, limited transfer of existing text-augmented forecasters to event-driven social-media data, and increased difficulty on reply-dense periods that aggregate metrics tend to obscure. We further include a lightweight structure-aware probe as a reference implementation, illustrating how SURGE can support interaction-aware forecasting research.
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