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# SNOW-DC 2014
SNOW 2014 Data Challenge

### Proceedings of the SNOW 2014 Data Challenge
co-located with 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014)

### Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014.

Edited by

### Symeon Papadopoulos *
David Corney **
Luca Maria Aiello ***

* Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Information Technologies Institute, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
** Robert Gordon University, IDEAS Research Institute, AB10 7GJ, Aberdeen, Scotland
*** Yahoo Labs, Barcelona, Spain

## Table of Contents

### Overview

- SNOW 2014 Data Challenge: Assessing the Performance of News Topic Detection Methods in Social Media 1-8
  Symeon Papadopoulos, David Corney, Luca Aiello

### Data Challenge Papers

- Real-time Topic Detection with Bursty N-grams 9-16
  Carlos Martin-Dancausa, Ayse Göker
- Distributed LDA-based Topic Modeling and Topic Agglomeration in a Latent Space 17-24
  Gopi Chand Nutakki, Olfa Nasraoui, Behnoush Abdollahi, Mahsa Badami, Wenlong Sun
- Detecting Newsworthy Topics in Twitter 25-32
  Steven Van Canneyt, Matthias Feys, Steven Schockaert, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder, Bart Dhoedt
- Event Detection in Twitter using Aggressive Filtering and Hierarchical Tweet Clustering 33-40
  Georgiana Ifrim, Bichen Shi, Igor Brigadir
- One Day in Twitter: Topic Detection Via Joint Complexity 41-48
  Gérard Burnside, Dimitris Milioris, Philippe Jacquet
- Two-level Message Clustering for Topic Detection in Twitter 49-56
  Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
- On-line Clustering for Real-Time Topic Detection in Social Media Streaming Data 57-63
  Robert Popovici, Andreas Weiler, Michael Grossniklaus
- Time-based Microblog Distillation 64-69
  Giambattista Amati, Simone Angelini, Marco Bianchi, Giorgio Gambosi, Gianluca Rossi
- TwiBiNG: A Bipartite News Generator Using Twitter 70-76
  Yashvardhan Sharma, Divyansh Bhatia, Vivek Kishore Choudhary

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