Reducing information overload in emergencies by detecting themes in web content

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-107

  Roman, Jorge H ^a   Collins, Linn Marks ^a   Mane, Ketan K ^a   Martinez, Mark L B ^a   Dunford, Carolyn E ^a   Powell Jr , James E ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency information system; Information extraction; Information overload; Theme detection; Unstructured text; Web crawl

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

DISASTER RESPONSE; EMERGENCY INFORMATION; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; UNSTRUCTURED TEXTS; WEB CONTENT; WEB CRAWL;

WEBSITES;

EID: 76649105997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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