Estimating the locations of emergency events from twitter streams

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 731-739

  Ao, Ji ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Cao, Yanan ^a  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Geo tags; Hierarchical clustering; Location estimation; Sina Weibo; User profiles

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEO-TAGS; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; LOCATION ESTIMATION; SINA-WEIBO; USER PROFILE;

LOCATION;

EID: 84902275420     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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