Analysing Emerging Topics across Multiple Social Media Platforms

The ability to compose emerging topics from the data collected from multiple social media platforms can help individuals and organisations meet their business goals and improve decision-making, as such information can provide more complete and accurate information. However, existing research has mainly focused on analysing emerging topics from the posts and related data collected from a single social media platform. In this paper, we propose a framework referred to as Multi-source Social Topic Media Analysis (xSMA) framework to model, rank and semantically analyse emerging topics across various social media platforms. The implementation and evaluation of the xSMA framework using real-world datasets obtained from Twitter and Reddit are also described.