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 …

The ever-growing number of people using Twitter makes it a valuable source of timely
information. However, detecting events in Twitter is a difficult task, because tweets that report …

Event tracking literature based on Twitter does not have a state-of-the-art. What it does have
is a plethora of manual evaluation methodologies and inventive automatic alternatives …

As global digitization continues to grow, technology becomes more affordable and easier to
use, and social media platforms thrive, becoming the new means of spreading information …

The ever-growing number of people using Twitter makes it a valuable source of timely
information. However, detecting events in Twitter is a difficult task, because tweets that report …

With the evolution of Social Networks (SNs) such as Twitter, millions of users can interacting,
sharing interests, activities, contents or exchanging experiences and opinions. Sharing …

Many biological phenomena or social events critically depend on how information evolves in
complex networks. However, a general theory to characterize information evolution is yet …

The growing popularity of Online Social Networks has open new research directions and
perspectives for content analysis, ie, Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing …

In the last years, with the increase of the available data from social networks and the rise of
big data technologies, social data has emerged as one of the most profitable market for …

The increasingly large amount of data produced in healthcare (eg collected through health
information systems such as electronic medical records–EMRs or collected through novel …