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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll Part of the Databases and Information Systems Commons, and the Social Media Commons Citation DIAO, Qiming. Event identification and analysis on Twitter. (2015). 1-90. Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access). Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/126 This PhD Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access) by an authorized administrator of Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University. For more information, please email
[email protected]. Event Identification and Analysis on Twitter by Qiming DIAO Submitted to School of Information Systems in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems Dissertation Committee: Jing JIANG (Supervisor / Chair) Assistant Professor of Information Systems Singapore Management University Hady W. LAUW Assistant Professor of Information Systems Singapore Management University Ee-Peng LIM Professor of Information Systems Singapore Management University Wee Sun LEE Associate Professor of Computer Science National University of Singapore Singapore Management University 2015 Copyright (2015) Qiming DIAO Event Identification and Analysis on Twitter Qiming DIAO Abstract With the rapid growth of social media, Twitter has become one of the most widely adopted platforms for people to post short and instant messages.