Understanding the diversity of tweets in the time of outbreaks

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1335-1342

  Kanhabua, Nattiya ^a   Nejdl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event detection; Outbreak events; Temporal diversity; Twitter; Web observatory

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EVENTS DETECTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; OUTBREAK EVENT; REAL-WORLD; SHARING INFORMATION; TEMPORAL DIVERSITY; TWITTER; WEB OBSERVATORY;

DISEASES;

EID: 84893154676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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