Practical extraction of disaster-relevant information from social media

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1021-1024

  Imran, Muhammad ^a   Elbassuoni, Shady ^b   Castillo, Carlos ^c   Diaz, Fernando ^d   Meier, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Information filtering; Social media

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STATISTICAL TESTS;

DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION MODELING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEDIA CONTENT; MODEL-BASED OPC; NATURAL DISASTERS; ONLINE USERS; RANDOM FIELDS; RELIEF EFFORTS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84893134772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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