• DocumentCode
    1443541
  • Title

    Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness

  • Author

    Yin, Jie ; Lampert, Andrew ; Cameron, Mark ; Robinson, Bella ; Power, Robert

  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    The described system uses natural language processing and data mining techniques to extract situation awareness information from Twitter messages generated during various disasters and crises.
  • Keywords
    data mining; disasters; emergency services; information retrieval; natural language processing; social networking (online); Twitter message; crises; data mining technique; disaster; emergency situation awareness; natural language processing; situation awareness information extraction; social media; Clustering algorithms; Data mining; Feature extraction; Medical information processing; Medical services; Natural language processing; Social network services; Twitter; Clustering algorithms; Data mining; Feature extraction; Medical information processing; Medical services; Natural language processing; Social network services; Twitter; burst detection; emergency response; online clustering; situation awareness; social media; text classification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Intelligent Systems, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-1672
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIS.2012.6
  • Filename
    6148196