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The participation of users within a social network can be considered as an act of sensing where they are interacting with the physical world and recording the corresponding observations in the form of texts, pictures, videos, etc. This phenomenon is termed as Social Sensing and motivates us to develop robust techniques which can estimate the physical state from the human observations. This dissertation addresses a set of problems related to detection and tracking of real-world events. The term ‘event’ refers to an entity that can be characterized by spatial and temporal properties. With the help of these properties we design novel mathematical models that help us with our goals. We first focus on a simple event detection technique using ‘Twitter’ as the source of information. The method described in this work allow us to perform detection in a completely language independent and unsupervised fashion. 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