A survey of techniques for event detection in Twitter

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 133-164

  Atefeh, Farzindar ^a   Khreich, Wael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

event detection; event identification; microblogs; monitoring social media; Twitter data stream

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA STREAMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS; TEXT MINING;

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EVENT DETECTION; EVENT IDENTIFICATION; MICROBLOGS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT MINING TECHNIQUES; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84922737183     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coin.12017     Document Type: Article

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