CrisisTracker: Crowdsourced social media curation for disaster awareness

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Rogstadius, J ^a   Vukovic, M ^b   Teixeira, C A ^a   Kostakos, V ^c   Karapanos, E ^a   Laredo, J A ^b  

^a MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE-SCALE EVENT; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; LOCAL LANGUAGE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS; SITUATION AWARENESS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISASTERS;

EID: 84884930498     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2013.2260692     Document Type: Article

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