"Our Grief is Unspeakable": Automatically measuring the community impact of a tragedy

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 161-169

  Glasgow, Kimberly ^a   Fink, Clayton ^a   Boyd Graber, Jordan ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISASTERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC TEXT CLASSIFICATION; CRISIS RESPONSE; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STATE; REAL- TIME; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909954471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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