Nowcasting events from the social web with statistical learning

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lampos, Vasileios ^a   Cristianini, Nello ^a  

^a Merchant Venturers Building   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event detection; Feature selection; LASSO; Social network mining; Sparse learning; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EVENT DETECTION; LASSO; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPARSE LEARNING; TWITTER;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SEMANTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84867410703     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2337542.2337557     Document Type: Article

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