Local Project

To access the french version of a problem statement please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kvpDuY0L2D4C_DIAU9o7CstcVzROb56HP_hd1oD5f8M/edit?usp=sharing

Nowadays, many people turn to express their feelings regarding events through social media, thus generating a vast corpus of conversations on a vast range of topics. Hot topic detection being an important knowledge discovery task on social data streams turns out to be very useful in such a context. They help to determine hot topics that are being discussed the most on a social platform. One of the main challenges of this task is the processing of a very large social dataset in a sequence order efficiently and effectively.

The Total Energies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN Total Energies 2021) took the continent by storm for a good 29 days, with the recently concluded 33rd edition acclaimed as the most widely followed in the history of the competition. #AFCON2021 engendered a surplus of feisty content, laden with agenda-setting, crescendoing the continent into a fever pitch. With mainstream and social media across and beyond the continent awash with technical analyses of the sport. This exciting event was about 24 countries, sparring through 52 matches and ending up with a Senegal-Egypt finale with the Teranga Lions emerging as first-time champions! With Cameroon gleaning 3rd place after a spectacular Lion-montada against Burkina Faso. Senegal’s Sadio Mané and Edouard Mendy winning best player and goalkeeper, respectively, Cameroon’s Vincent Aboubakar finishing as top goalscorer with 8 goals, with Karl Toko Ekambi (5 goals ) in tow, Cameroon’s “CAN sucrée” thrilled spectators to the very end. However, the murmuring ranged from debatable concerns about the refereeing and CAF COVID-19 regulations to improbable claims about accommodation. But it wasn’t long before it morphed into a berserk attack on the host country, more could be read here.