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DIS
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Sentiment Knowledge Discovery in Twitter Streaming Data
Micro-blogs are a challenging new source of information for data mining techniques. Twitter is a micro-blogging service built to discover what is happening at any moment in time, a...
Albert Bifet, Eibe Frank
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Understanding retweeting behaviors in social networks
Retweeting is an important action (behavior) on Twitter, indicating the behavior that users re-post microblogs of their friends. While much work has been conducted for mining text...
Zi Yang, Jingyi Guo, Keke Cai, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less
In this work we present a characterization of spam on Twitter. We find that 8% of 25 million URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular blackl...
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Michael Zha...
ISEMANTICS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Twarql: tapping into the wisdom of the crowd
Twarql is an infrastructure translating microblog posts from Twitter as Linked Open Data in real-time. The approach employed in Twarql can be summarized as follows: (1) extract co...
Pablo N. Mendes, Alexandre Passant, Pavan Kapanipa...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
HT
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Conversational tagging in twitter
Users on Twitter, a microblogging service, started the phenomenon of adding tags to their messages sometime around February 2008. These tags are distinct from those in other Web 2...
Jeff Huang, Katherine M. Thornton, Efthimis N. Eft...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
New-web search with microblog annotations
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 15 hour ago
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo