Beyond Trending Topics: Real-World Event Identification on Twitter

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 438-441

  Becker, Hila ^a   Naaman, Mor ^b   Gravano, Luis ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVENT IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION SHARING; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; REAL- TIME; REAL-WORLD; SHORT MESSAGE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME EVENT; TRENDING TOPICS;

EID: 85109101900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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