Monitoring Environmental Quality by Sniffing Social Media

Monitoring Environmental Quality by Sniffing Social Media

Nowadays, the environmental pollution and degradation in China has become a serious problem with the rapid development of Chinese heavy industry and increased energy generation. With sustainable development being the key to solving these problems, it is necessary to develop proper techniques for monitoring environmental quality. Compared to traditional environment monitoring methods utilizing e...

Sniffing Behavior Communicates Social Hierarchy

Sniffing is a specialized respiratory behavior that is essential for the acquisition of odors [1-4]. Perhaps not independent of this, sniffing is commonly displayed during motivated [5-7] and social behaviors [8, 9]. No measures of sniffing among interacting animals are available, however, calling into question the utility of this behavior in the social context. From radiotelemetry recordings o...

Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation

Health Monitoring on Social Media over Time

Social media has become a major source for analyzing all aspects of daily life. Thanks to dedicated latent topic analysis methods such as the Ailment Topic Aspect Model (ATAM), public health can now be observed on Twitter. In this work, we are interested in monitoring people’s health over time. Recently, Temporal-LDA (TM–LDA) was proposed for efficiently modeling general-purpose topic transitio...

Filtering and Ranking for Social Media Monitoring

Social media monitoring is fast becoming a staple activity for public relations and communications staff, who have a growing mandate to track mentions of organisational entities, projects, or products in social media. However, this task is not trivial because: 1) the mentions may be found across a variety of social media and 2) the keywords used for detecting mentions are often ambiguous. We ad...