Unsupervised spatial event detection in targeted domains with applications to civil unrest modeling.

Twitter has become a popular data source as a surrogate for monitoring and detecting events. Targeted domains such as crime, election, and social unrest require the creation of algorithms capable of detecting events pertinent to these domains. Due to the unstructured language, short-length messages,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liang Zhao, Feng Chen, Jing Dai, Ting Hua, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4211687?pdf=render