Automatic identification of crisis-related sub-events using clustering

Proceedings - 2012 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 333-338

  Pohl, Daniela ^a   Bouchachia, Abdelhamid ^b   Hellwagner, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Crisis Management; Sub Event Detection

Indexed keywords

AFTER-THE-FACT; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING APPROACH; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; CRISIS SITUATIONS; HIGH POTENTIAL; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SECOND PHASE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPEED UP; SUB-EVENTS; TWO-PHASE CLUSTERING;

AUTOMATION; MOBILE DEVICES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873575419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2012.170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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