Aid is out there: Looking for help from tweets during a large scale disaster

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1619-1629

  Varga, István ^a   Sano, Motoki ^a   Torisawa, Kentaro ^a   Hashimoto, Chikara ^a   Ohtake, Kiyonori ^a   Kawai, Takao ^b   Oh, Jong Hoon ^a   De Saeger, Stijn ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; LARGE SCALE DISASTERS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84907011380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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