Quality management architecture for social media data

Processing Social Media Data for Crisis Management in Athena

Social Media for Cold Management

Social media has been increasingly used to manage emergencies (hot management), yet it is still unclear to which extent its use is truly beneficial to manage calm situations (cold management). Take socioeconomic deprivation of cities. Measuring it in an accurate and timely fashion has become a priority for governments around the world. Traditionally, deprivation indexes have been derived from c...

An Architecture for Social Media Summarisation

Social media traffic and mobile usage is growing at an accelerating rate, and the amount of media that is being uploaded on social media sites (such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) is also increasing. The consortium GRAISearch aims at developing tools to merge, to visualise and to present this wealth of data in a comprehensive, compact and user-friendly way. This poster will present a work-...

Integrating Social Media Data for Community Detection

Community detection is an unsupervised learning task that discovers groups such that group members share more similarities or interact more frequently among themselves than with people outside groups. In social media, link information can reveal heterogeneous relationships of various strengths, but often can be noisy. Since different sources of data in social media can provide complementary inf...

Gender Prediction for Chinese Social Media Data

Social media provides users a platform to publish messages and socialize with others, and microblogs have gained more users than ever in recent years. With such usage, user profiling is a popular task in computational linguistics and text mining. Different approaches have been used to predict users’ gender, age, and other information, but most of this work has been done on English and other Wes...