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Who Should We Be Listening to? Applying Models of User Authority to Detecting Emerging Topics on the EIN
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Emerging event detection is the process of automatically identifying novel and emerging ideas from text with minimal human intervention. With the rise of social networks like Twitter, topic detection has begun leveraging measures of user influence… read more… to identify emerging events. Twitter's highly skewed follower/followee structure lends itself to an intuitive … to identify emerging events. Twitter’s highly skewed follower/followee structure lends itself to an intuitive … 1000 random trials of selecting subsets of 80 users to follow. For evaluation, we used an annotated set of EIN … -
Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads
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The increasing use of the Internet to arrange sexual encounters presents challenges to public health agencies formulating STD interventions, particularly in the context of anonymous encounters. These encounters complicate or break traditional… read more… encounters. While this process detects many clusters, the lack of a true corpus of authorship-linked ads makes it … encounters. While this process detects many clusters, the lack of a true corpus of authorship-linked ads makes it …