Social media services such as Twitter offer an immense volume of real-world linguistic data.
We explore the use of Twitter to obtain authentic user-generated text in low-resource …

We describe a novel approach for automatically predicting the hidden demographic
properties of social media users. Building on prior work in common-sense knowledge …

In Nigeria, the growth in mobile phone use has provided the opportunity for increased
access to the internet, and through this, the social media. The social media in turn offers …

This article explores the role of social media in the memorialisation of the Biafra famine. It
argues that given the absence of Biafra famine narratives in the official post-Civil War …

Multilingual individuals code switch between languages as a part of a complex
communication process. However, most computational studies have examined only one or a …

This paper studies commonalities in response across disasters in online social networks
(OSNs), specifically Twitter. After presenting an algorithm for extracting vocabularies across …

Studies have shown that electric power supply failures can induce customers' use of media
for electric power–related communications. Nigeria is a country with considerably active …

The Internet has drastically changed information and knowledge sharing processes globally.
It is a widely accepted medium for transformation and empowerment. Individuals, groups …

As technologies permitting both the creation and retrieval of data containing spatial
information continue to develop, so do the number of visualizations using such data. This …

The rapid increase in using non-standard words (NSWs) in communication through the
social media is causing difficulties in understanding contents of the text messages. In …