Extracting information nuggets from disaster- Related messages in social media

ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 791-801

  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; Social media; Supervised classification; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA VISUALIZATION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TWITTER; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84905650414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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