Multimodal Social Media Mining

Social media have transformed the Web into an interactive sharing platform where users upload data and media, comment on, and share this content within their social circles. The large-scale availability of user-generated content in social media platforms has opened up new possibilities for studying and understanding real-world phenomena, trends and events. The objective of this talk is to provide an overview of social media mining, which offers a unique opportunity to discover, collect, and extract relevant information in order to provide useful insights. It will include key challenges and issues, such as fighting misinformation, data collection, analysis and visualization components, applications, results and demonstrations from multiple areas ranging from news to environmental and security ones.