Featured Application Specific application include detect hot events and monitor the
development of events, potential applications include public opinion regulatory, monitor …

The study of temporal dynamics and its impact can be framed within the so-called temporal
IR approaches, which explain how user behavior, document content and scale vary with …

Rapid advancements in internet and social media technologies have made “information
overload” a rampant and widespread problem. Complex subjects, histories, or issues break …

Due to the prevalence of social media sites, users are allowed to conveniently share their
ideas and activities anytime and anywhere. Therefore, these sites hold substantial real …

The availability of datasets annotated with verified events by the public is a necessary
prerequisite for unleashing the potential of multimodal deep learning for news event …

Online news has become increasingly prevalent due to its convenience for information
acquisition, and meanwhile the rapid development of social applications enables news …

The popular micro-blogging service, Twitter, hides invaluable information about real world
events. Extracting such information, especially local news, exerts a measure of influence …

Social networking and microblogging services such as Twitter provide a continuous source
of data from which useful information can be extracted. The detection and characterization of …

Activities on social media increase at a dramatic rate. When an external event happens,
there is a surge in the degree of activities related to the event. These activities may be …

Given the overwhelming amounts of information in our current 24/7 stream of new incoming
articles, new techniques are needed to enable users to focus on just the key entities and …