Social tags as news event detectors

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-18

  Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Razikin, Khasfariyati ^a   Goh, Dion H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

citizen journalism; event detection; social tags; user generated content

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN JOURNALISM; EVENT DETECTION; GROUND TRUTH; LEVEL OF INTEREST; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SOCIAL TAGS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

IMAGE RECORDING;

DETECTORS;

EID: 79551652127     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551510389108     Document Type: Article

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