Catastrophic events create uncertain situations for humanitarian organizations locating and
providing aid to affected people. Many people turn to social media during disasters for …

With the increasing growth and popularity of social networking sites, social question and
answering has become a venue for individuals to seek and share information. This study …

We present a novel approach for recognizing what we call targetable named entities; that is,
named entities in a targeted set (eg, movies, books, TV shows). Unlike many other NER …

The widespread use of social networks has caused these platforms to become the target of
malicious people. Although social networks have their own spam detection systems, these …

This paper presents a novel approach to social data analysis, exploring the use of
microblogging to manage interaction between humans and robots, and presenting and …

With the advance of modern technology, social networking sites, such as Twitter, are
becoming increasingly important information sources for people to find answers to their …

The volume of short text data increases rapidly these years. Data examples include tweets
and online Q&A pairs. It is essential to organize and summarize these data automatically …

Over the past years, Twitter has earned a growing reputation as a hub for communication,
and events advertisement and tracking. However, several recent research studies have …

This paper presents a social network-based peer-to-peer search service for identifying right
collaborators in the context of Web 2.0. We present a three-layer hierarchical social network …

Securing social networks and ensuring the privacy of participants has become a crucial
need. There are no books to date that address both social network analytics as well as …