Analyzing short texts infers discriminative and coherent latent topics that is a critical and
fundamental task since many real-world applications require semantic understanding of …

Due to the inception of Web 2.0 and freedom to facilitate the dissemination of information,
sharing views, expressing opinions with regards to current world level events, services …

Online social media such as Twitter are growing so rapidly. Recently, Twitter has become
one of the popular microblogging services on the Internet. It lets millions of users to …

Twitter has become one of the largest microblogging platforms for users around the world to
share anything happening around them with friends and beyond. A bursty topic in Twitter is …

In recent years, microblogs have become an important source for reporting real-world
events. A real-world occurrence reported in microblogs is also called a social event. Social …

What is happening around the world? When and where? Mining the geo-tagged Twitter
stream makes it possible to answer the above questions in real-time. Although a single tweet …

Social media provides valuable resources to analyze user behaviors and capture user
preferences. This article focuses on analyzing user behaviors in social media systems and …

Microblog is a popular and open platform for discovering and sharing the latest news about
social issues and daily life. The quickly-updated microblog streams make it urgent to …

Social media provides valuable resources to analyze user behaviors and capture user
preferences. This paper focuses on analyzing user behaviors in social media systems and …

Newly emerging location-based and event-based social network services provide us with a
new platform to understand users' preferences based on their activity history. A user can …