Connecting Social Network with Smart Education: A Microblog-Based Experimental System

Jie Zhao, Chen Chen

In this paper, we propose a microblog-based experimental system for enhancing smart education. In the age of social network, smart education lacks effective platform to help students practice social-network-oriented tasks, such as information pre-processing and information extraction. For this purpose, we develop a microblog-based experimental system that offers many functions to process microblog information, including microblog crawling, microblog pre-processing, and event detection from microblogs. In particular, we implement a number of state-of-the-art models and algorithms in the system, which enable students to learn existing technologies related to social-network information processing more effectively. After a brief introduction on the system framework, we present the experimental results of microblog-based event detection. Finally, we discuss the impact of our system on smart education.