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BroDyn'18: Workshop on analysis of broad dynamic topics over social media
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CEUR-WS
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Social media streams are flooded with posts related to topics that are broad (i.e., cover several sub-topics) and dynamic (i.e., develop over time) which attract long-standing user interests. Posts about topics like "Brexit" ...
What questions do journalists ask on Twitter?
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AI Access Foundation
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Social media platforms are a major source of information for both the general public and for journalists. Journalists use Twitter and other social media services to gather story ideas, to find eyewitnesses, and for a wide ...
EveTAR: A new test collection for event detection in Arabic tweets
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Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Research on event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of publicly-available evaluation mechanisms such as test collections; this problem is more severe when considering the scarcity of them in languages ...
FacebookVideoLive18: A Live Video Streaming Dataset for Streams Metadata and Online Viewers Locations
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
With the advancement in personal smart devices and pervasive network connectivity, users are no longer passive content consumers, but also contributors in producing new contents. This expansion in live services requires a ...
The evolution of scholarly digital library needs in an international environment: Social reference management systems and Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Qatar has become an active research producer of data, publications, and other scholarly works. We studied the evolving scholarly activities and needs of researchers in this relatively new research environment, and compared ...
CAT: Credibility Analysis of Arabic Content on Twitter
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Data generated on Twitter has become a rich source for various data mining tasks. Those data analysis tasks that are dependent on the tweet semantics, such as sentiment analysis, emotion mining, and rumor detection among ...
A Characterization Study of Arabic Twitter Data with a Benchmarking for State-of-the-Art Opinion Mining Models
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Opinion mining in Arabic is a challenging task given the rich morphology of the language. The task becomes more challenging when it is applied to Twitter data, which contains additional sources of noise, such as the use ...
CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the automatic identification and verification of claims in social media
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Springer
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the 2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in ...
Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Microblogging platforms and Twitter specifically have become a major resource for exploring diverse topics of interest that vary from the world's breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion and even ...
Exploiting Live Feedback for Tweet Real-time Push Notifications
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post diverse information. Although a user would regularly check her Twitter timeline to stay up-to-date on her topics ...