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r-Instance Learning for Missing People Tweets Identification

Social and Information Networks 2018-06-06 v2 Computation and Language

Abstract

The number of missing people (i.e., people who get lost) greatly increases in recent years. It is a serious worldwide problem, and finding the missing people consumes a large amount of social resources. In tracking and finding these missing people, timely data gathering and analysis actually play an important role. With the development of social media, information about missing people can get propagated through the web very quickly, which provides a promising way to solve the problem. The information in online social media is usually of heterogeneous categories, involving both complex social interactions and textual data of diverse structures. Effective fusion of these different types of information for addressing the missing people identification problem can be a great challenge. Motivated by the multi-instance learning problem and existing social science theory of "homophily", in this paper, we propose a novel r-instance (RI) learning model.

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@article{arxiv.1805.10856,
  title  = {r-Instance Learning for Missing People Tweets Identification},
  author = {Yang Yang and Haoyan Liu and Xia Hu and Jiawei Zhang and Xiaoming Zhang and Zhoujun Li and Philip S. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10856},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.10617

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