The tremendous growth of event dissemination over social networks makes it very
challenging to accurately discover and track exciting events, as well as their evolution and …

In recent years, news media have been hugely disrupted by news promotion, commentary
and sharing in online, social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit). This disruption has …

Numerous important events happen everyday and everywhere but are reported in different
media sources with different narrative styles. How to detect whether real-world events have …

Abstract The Boston Marathon bombing story unfolded on every possible carrier of
information available in the spring of 2013, including Twitter. As information spread, it was …

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial research task for promptly apprehending event information
from massive textual data. With the rapid development of deep learning, EE based on deep …

Social media today are playing a more important role as a news source than ever before.
Yet, there have been no longitudinal studies on journalists' sourcing practices in recent …

Detecting events in real-time from the Twitter data stream has gained substantial attention in
recent years from researchers around the world. Different event detection approaches have …

The proliferation of social networking services has resulted in a rapid growth of their user
base, spanning across the world. The collective information generated from these online …

This book investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social
media by police agencies in Canada. This book aims to illustrate the process by which new …

Detecting crisis events accurately is an important task, as it allows the relevant authorities to
implement necessary actions to mitigate damages. For this purpose, social media serve as a …