An analysis of twitter messages in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 91 LNICST, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-66

  Doan, Son ^a   Vo, Bao Khanh Ho ^a   Collier, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

earthquake; natural language processing; social media; surveillance; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; FACEBOOK; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES; PUBLIC MOOD; PUBLIC OPINIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRONG CORRELATION; TWITTER;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EARTHQUAKES; HEALTH CARE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84868113772     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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