... Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Twitter Semantic analysis Event detection Semantic similarity Set similarity The advent of online social media and its continuous growing popularity has provided a new channel and arena for exchange and/or sharing...

... in social media. This study aims to present and review the varied methods carried out for event detection from microblogs. An event is an activity or action with a clear finite duration in which the target entity plays a key role. Event detection helps in the timely understanding of people’s opinion...