... of disinformation on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach This study carries out fake news detection using user characteristics and tweet textual content as features. For categorizing user characteristics, this study uses the XGBoost algorithm. To classify the tweet text, this study uses various natural...

... on Twitter. Thus, there is clear evidence of the need of having different options to extract different data for this purpose. Nevertheless, none of these studies perform a comparative evaluation of both extraction techniques. Moreover, the authors extend a previous comparison, which uses a recent developed...

... 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...

... as a component in the design of a recommender system based on user profiling from Twitter user behaviors. Social implications The application of the proposed method in short-text social network can be massive and beyond the applications in tweets. Originality/value There are few works that have...

...Shuhei Yamamoto; Kei Wakabayashi; Tetsuji Satoh; Yuri Nozaki; Noriko Kando Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of growth users over a long time to strategically collect a large amount of specific users’ tweets. Twitter reflects events and trends in users’ real lives...

...Shuhei Yamamoto; Kei Wakabayashi; Noriko Kando; Tetsuji Satoh Purpose Many Twitter users post tweets that are related to their particular interests. Users can also collect information by following other users. One approach clarifies user interests by tagging labels based on the users. A user...

... – Interest reflection of Twitter is investigated based on the context of sharing behavior. A context-oriented approach is proposed to evaluate the interest reflection of tweeted Web pages based on machine learning. Some different distribution models of similarity are present, and infer whether tweeted Web...

...Changhyun Byun; Hyeoncheol Lee; Yanggon Kim; Kwangmi Ko Kim Purpose It is difficult to build our own social data set because data in social media is generally too vast and noisy. The aim of this study is to specify design and implementation details of the Twitter data collecting tool with a rule...

... This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 1, 2011, International Journal of Web Information Systems © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Arabic language Blogs Communication Credibility Information media Natural language processing Trust Twitter...

...Hend S. Al‐Khalifa Purpose This study aims to understand the underlying social structure of Saudi citizens' interaction and discussion of political topics over the Twitter sphere. Design/methodology/approach The study employs social network analysis (SNA) measurements such as centrality...

...Hend S. Al‐Khalifa; Rasha M. Al‐Eidan Purpose Owing to the large amount of information available on Twitter (a micro blogging service) that is not necessarily true or believable, credibility of news published in such an electronic channel has become an important area for investigation in the field...