Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities. Second EAI International Conference, IISSC 2017 and CN4IoT 2017, Brindisi, Italy, April 20–21, 2017, Proceedings

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An Analysis of Social Data Credibility for Services Systems in Smart Cities – Credibility Assessment and Classification of Tweets

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_14,
        author={Iman Abu Hashish and Gianmario Motta and Tianyi Ma and Kaixu Liu},
        title={An Analysis of Social Data Credibility for Services Systems in Smart Cities -- Credibility Assessment and Classification of Tweets},
        proceedings={Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities. Second EAI International Conference, IISSC 2017 and CN4IoT 2017, Brindisi, Italy, April 20--21, 2017, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={IISSC \& CN4IOT},
        year={2017},
        month={11},
        keywords={Smart cities Smart citizens Social data Twitter Twitter bot Credibility Veracity Classification Social media mining Machine learning},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_14}
    }
    
  • Iman Abu Hashish
    Gianmario Motta
    Tianyi Ma
    Kaixu Liu
    Year: 2017
    An Analysis of Social Data Credibility for Services Systems in Smart Cities – Credibility Assessment and Classification of Tweets
    IISSC & CN4IOT
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_14
Iman Abu Hashish1,*, Gianmario Motta1,*, Tianyi Ma1,*, Kaixu Liu1,*
  • 1: University of Pavia
*Contact email: imanhishamjami.abuhashish01@universitadipavia.it, motta05@unipv.it, tianyi.ma01@universitadipavia.it, kaixu.liu01@universitadipavia.it

Abstract

In the “Information Age”, Smart Cities rely on a wide range of different data sources. Among them, social networks can play a big role, if information veracity is assessed. Veracity assessment has been, and is, a rather popular research field. Specifically, our work investigates the credibility of data from Twitter, an online social network and a news media, by considering not only credibility, and type, but also origin. Our analysis proceeds in four phases: Features Extraction, Features Analysis, Features Selection, and Classification. Finally, we classify whether a Tweet is credible or incredible, is rumor or spam, is generated by a human or a Bot. We use Social Media Mining and Machine Learning techniques. Our analysis reaches an overall accuracy higher than the benchmark, and it adds the origin dimension to the credibility analysis method.