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Preprocessing Techniques To Support Event Detection Data Fusion On Social Media Data, Brandon T. Davis
Preprocessing Techniques To Support Event Detection Data Fusion On Social Media Data, Brandon T. Davis
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This thesis focuses on collection and preprocessing of streaming social media feeds for metadata as well as the visual and textual information. Today, news media has been the main source of immediate news events, large and small. However, the information conveyed on these news sources is delayed due to the lack of proximity and general knowledge of the event. Such news have started relying on social media sources for initial knowledge of these events. Previous works focused on captured textual data from social media as a data source to detect events. This preprocessing framework postures to facilitate the data fusion …