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Detecting Public Transit Service Disruptions Using Social Media Mining and Graph Convolution

Zulfiqar, OmerVirginia Tech2021

… This work involves developing a pure Data Mining approach and a couple different approaches that use Graph Neural Networks to identify transit disruption related information in Tweets from a live Twitter stream related to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) metro …

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The opioid epidemic through the lens of social media: mining digital traces for public health, pharmacovigilance, and rehabilitation.

Schifanella, Rossano, Balsamo, DuilioUniversità degli Studi di Torino2022

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Spatio-temporal Event Detection and Forecasting in Social Media

Zhao, LiangVirginia Tech2016

Nowadays, knowledge discovery on social media is attracting growing interest. Social media has become more than a communication tool, effectively functioning as a social sensor for our society. This dissertation focuses on the development of methods for social media-based spatiotemporal event …

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Intelligent Event Focused Crawling

Farag, Mohamed Magdy GharibVirginia Tech2016

… automated approach for curating seed URLs using social media content. We leveraged the richness of social media content about events to extract URLs that can be used as seed URLs for further focused crawling. We evaluated our system through four series of experiments, using recent events: Orlando …

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