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Monitoring Social Events on Sina Weibo

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Trustworthy Computing and Services (ISCTCS 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 520))

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Public opinion from social network has proved to play important roles in usual life. How to extract them massive data from social network and social media has attract a lot research efforts. This paper addresses several key issues in the design and implementation of an event monitoring system based on social network. Our proposed system aims at extracting and mining social events from social network, and foucuses on: (1) Collecting data from weibo; (2) Extracting event information such as time and location; (3) Modeling and displaying. We describe the main architecture and processing flow of the system in detail.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by State Key Development Program of Basic Research of China (No. 2013CB329605), the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61300014), and also by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2013RC0301].

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  1. Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Distributed Computing and Service, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xi Zhang, Guanhong Jiang & Yuan Su

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  1. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommuncations, Beijing, China

    Lu Yueming

  2. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Wu Xu

  3. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Zhang Xi

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Zhang, X., Jiang, G., Su, Y. (2015). Monitoring Social Events on Sina Weibo. In: Yueming, L., Xu, W., Xi, Z. (eds) Trustworthy Computing and Services. ISCTCS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 520. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47401-3_43

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