X (formerly known as Twitter), Reddit, and other social media forums have dramatically
changed the way society interacts with live events in this day and age. The huge amount of …

Background Social media can be powerful tools for rallying support for a social cause,
political mobilization, and social commentary. They can also greatly contribute to incendiary …

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 …

We present a lightweight method for identifying currently trending terms in relation to a
known prior of terms, using a weighted log-odds ratio with an informative prior. We apply this …

Researches on trending topics detection, especially on Twitter, have increased and various
methods for detecting trending topics have been developed. Most of these researches have …

The detection of topics from large textual data volumes is currently a research area, which
has many applications in the development of computational systems. A proposed solution …

Due to the continuous growth of social networks the textual information available has
increased exponentially. Data warehouses (DW) and online analytical processing (OLAP) …

Twitter׳ s increasing popularity as a source of up-to-date news and information about current
events has spawned a body of research on event detection techniques for social media data …

Social sensing is a new paradigm that inherits the main ideas of sensor networks and
considers the users as new sensor types. For instance, by the time the users find out that an …

Ask two people to describe an event they have both experienced, and you will usually hear
two very different accounts. Witnesses bring their own preconceptions and biases which …