Social media is becoming an increasingly important data source for learning about breaking
news and for following the latest developments of ongoing news. This is in part possible …

Data-driven urbanism is often entangled with the smart city and practiced in a way that
prioritizes control over physical objects and downplays the human and political aspects of …

With the increasing volume of location-annotated content from various social media
platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare, we now have real-time access to people's …

Event detection from text data streams has been a popular research area in the past decade.
Recently, the evolution of microblogging and social network services opens up great …

This paper presents the report of a social media analytics (SMA) review. The review
conducted to find out the methods and tools used in social media analytics, types of social …

Twitter's popularity as a source of up-to-date news and information is constantly increasing.
In response to this trend, numerous event detection techniques have been proposed to cope …

With the current availability of an extreme diversity of data sources and services, emerging
from the Internet of Things and Cloud domains, the challenge is shifted towards identifying …

Event summarization based on crowdsourced microblog data is a promising research area,
and several researchers have recently focused on this field. However, these previous works …

The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming
increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that …

Explicit references on Twitter to future events can be leveraged to feed a fully automatic
monitoring system of real-world events. We describe a system that extracts open-domain …