Topic models have been applied to everything from books to newspapers to social media
posts in an effort to identify the most prevalent themes of a text corpus. We provide an in …

The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Big data has become an important issue for a large number of research areas such as data
mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, information fusion, the semantic Web …

Online social networks play a major role in the spread of information at very large scale. A lot
of effort have been made in order to understand this phenomenon, ranging from popular …

Abstract Information cascades are important dynamical processes in complex networks. An
information cascade can describe the spreading dynamics of rumour, disease, memes, or …

The history of linguistics is punctuated by sea changes of culture afforded by new
technologies of communication–first writing, then audio recording and most recently Web 1.0 …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced policy makers to decree urgent confinements to stop a
rapid and massive contagion. However, after that stage, societies are being forced to find an …

With the rapid development and popularization of Internet and mobile communication
technologies, text data mining has attracted much attention. In particular, with the wide use …

User-contributed messages on social media sites such as Twitter have emerged aspowerful,
real-time means of information sharing on the Web. These short messages tend to reflect a …