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Discovering events in Twitter using topic modelling

On 14 /12, a seminar was held in the computer department on discovering events in Twitter using modelling. The seminar was conducted by Dr. Hiba Jabbar, who explained the significance of Twitter as an academic research platform due to its importance in social media sites. She also discussed a system that discovers events from the textual analysis of tweets depending on the principle of topic modelling. She further revealed the challenges of the topic and how to solve them scientifically.