Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Social Media Computing

The papers in this special section focus on social media computing. With massive amounts of social media data currently available, social media computing has attracted considerable attention in recent years, which aims to represent, analyze, and extract useful patterns from social media data. Social media computing is one typical cross-discipline of computer science, data mining, natural language process, and social sciences. As an emerging research field, there are various open, unexplored, and unidentified problems. There is a great need for computational models for tasks such as social media pattern analysis and prediction on social media data.