We analyze over 500 million Twitter messages from an eight month period and find that tracking a small number of flu-related keywords allows us to forecast future influenza rates ...
The paper considers a network with many apparently-independent periodic processes and discusses one method by which these processes can inadvertently become synchronized. In parti...
Future Web applications will increasingly require real-time data from the physical world collected by a myriad of sensors and actuators. Currently, integration of such devices requ...
Messaging with new media should be fun, but sometimes participating in conversations can become a burden for users due to the effort required. In this paper, examples of such situ...
Abstract. In this paper, we address the task of affect recognition from text messaging. In order to sense and interpret emotional information expressed through written language, ru...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...