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Real-time Spatio-temporal Event Detection on Geotagged Social Media
Yasmeen George, Shanika Karunasekera, Aaron Harwood +1
A key challenge in mining social media data streams is to identify events which are actively discussed by a group of people in a specific local or global area. Such events are usef…
Mining Influentials and their Bot Activities on Twitter Campaigns
Shanika Karunasekera, Kwan Hui Lim, Aaron Harwood
Twitter is increasingly used for political, advertising and marketing campaigns, where the main aim is to influence users to support specific causes, individuals or groups. We prop…
Multi-spatial Scale Event Detection from Geo-tagged Tweet Streams via Power-law Verification
Yi Han, Shanika Karunasekera, Christopher Leckie +1
Compared with traditional news media, social media nowadays provides a richer and more timely source of news. We are interested in multi-spatial level event detection from geo-tagg…