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Relatedness measurement between multimedia such as images and videos plays an important role in computer vision, which is a base for many multimedia related applications including clustering, searching, recommendation, and annotation. Recently, with the explosion of social media, users can upload media data and annotate content with descriptive tags. In this paper, we aim at measuring the semantic relatedness of Flickr images. Firstly, four information theory based functions are used to measure the semantic relatedness of tags. Secondly, the integration of tags pair based on bipartite graph is proposed to remove the noise and redundancy. Thirdly, the order information of tags is added to measure the semantic relatedness, which emphasizes the tags with high positions. The data sets including 1000 images from Flickr are used to evaluate the proposed method. Two data mining tasks including clustering and searching are performed by the proposed method, which shows the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method. Moreover, some applications such as searching and faceted exploration are introduced using the proposed method, which shows that the proposed method has broad prospects on web based tasks.

An emergency event is an unexceptional event that exceeds the capacity of normal resources and organization to cope and a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment. Crowdsourcing connects unobtrusive and ubiquitous sensing technologies, advanced data management and analytics models, and novel visualization methods, to create solutions that improve urban environment, human life quality, and city operation systems. The crowdsourcing on social media can be used to detect and analyze urban emergency events. In this paper, in order to detect and describe the real-time urban emergency event, the knowledge base model is proposed. The crowdsourcing-based knowledge base model is firstly introduced, which uses the information from social media. Secondly, the basic definition of the proposed knowledge base model including keywords, patterns, positive sentences, and knowledge graph is given. Thirdly, the temporal information is added to the proposed knowledge base model. The case study on real data sets shows that the proposed algorithm has good performance and high effectiveness in the analysis and detection of emergency events. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the popularity of web, the internet is becoming a major information provider and poster of an event due to its real-time, open, and dynamic features. In this paper, crowd sensing based burst computation algorithm of a web event is developed in order to let the people know a web event clearly and help the social group or government process the events effectively. Different temporal features of web events are developed to provide the basics for the proposed computation algorithm. The burst power is presented to integrate the above temporal features of an event. Empirical experiments on real datasets including Google Zeitgeist and Google Trends show that the number of web pages and the average clustering coefficient can be used to detect events. The evaluations on real dataset show that the proposed function integrating the number of web pages and the average clustering coefficient can be used for event detection efficiently and correctly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]