Large‐Scale Social Multimedia Analysis
Benjamin Bischke, Damian Borth, Andreas Dengel · 2019
This chapter deals with the importance of social multimedia and provides an overview of available social multimedia streams. A comprehensive analysis of social multimedia is performed on the micro-blogging platform Twitter with respect to different facets. Social media has experienced extraordinary growth as a category of online discourse where people create, share, bookmark content and network at prodigious rate. Geographical information is an important dimension of social multimedia. The chapter demonstrates how large-scale analysis of social multimedia can be applied to the specific case of multimedia opinion mining. It then looks at state-of-the-art methods in machine learning for the analysis and information extraction of social multimedia. Large-scale social multimedia can be characterized by the high volume, high velocity, and high variety of content and therefore be considered as an instance of the big data problem.