Twitter has received much attention recently. In this paper, we investigated the real-time nature of Twitter, devoting particular attention to event detection. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. We investigate the real-time interaction of events such as earthquakes in Twitter and propose an algorithm to monitor tweets and to detect a target […]
Data Extraction and Label Assignment for Web Databases
An increasing number of databases have become web accessible through HTML form-based search interfaces. The data units returned from the underlying database are usually encoded into the result pages dynamically for human browsing. For the encoded data units to be machine processable, which is essential for many applications such as deep web data collection and […]