微網誌在近幾年快速成長並產生了相當龐大的資料。人們很難去完全吸收如此龐大的資料，因此部份的學者試圖從這些資料中找出重要、有價值的資訊好讓使用者能輕鬆的瞭解現在微網誌上的狀況。與其找出那些已經廣為人知的熱門話題，還不如去發掘潛在的熱門話題更具價值，可以用作安置廣告、社群網路經營以及網路行銷。
本篇論文提出一個PHTDP方法用來發掘潛在的熱門話題。PHTDP包含三個部份，第一部份是定期地對收集到的作話題偵測與追蹤，第二部份是從第一部份得到的結果中找出潛在的熱門話題，第三部份是利用話題探針來驗證潛在話題的潛力。

Microblog has grown rapidly in recent years and very huge data are created. These huge amount data are difficult to absorb with people. Thus some researchers try to extract the important or valuable information that makes people easy to know what are going on microblog. In contrast with detecting hot topic which is already known by a large amount of people, potential hot topic discovery is more valuable for advertising, social network managing and marketing.
This thesis proposed an approach named PHTDP which concentrated on potential hot topic discovery. The PHTDP is composited of three parts. First, TDT is periodically performed to the collected data. Second, potential hot topics are extracted from the result of the first part. Third, the potential of topics are verified by topic probing.

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