The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

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 …

Twitter is among the fastest‐growing microblogging and online social networking services.
Messages posted on Twitter (tweets) have been reporting everything from daily life stories to …

With the rapid development and popularization of Internet and mobile communication
technologies, text data mining has attracted much attention. In particular, with the wide use …

Tweets are the most up-to-date and inclusive stream of in-formation and commentary on
current events, but they are also fragmented and noisy, motivating the need for systems that …

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication.
The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing …

Event detection from tweets is an important task to understand the current events/topics
attracting a large number of common users. However, the unique characteristics of tweets …

The status updates posted to social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, contain a
myriad of information about what people are doing and watching. During events, such as …

Recent years have seen a great deal of work that exploits collaborative, semi-structured
content for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This special …

In the last few years, Twitter has become a popular platform for sharing opinions,
experiences, news, and views in real-time. Twitter presents an interesting opportunity for …