Integrating social media communications into the rapid assessment of sudden onset disasters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8851, Issue , 2014, Pages 444-461

  Vieweg, Sarah ^a   Castillo, Carlos ^a   Imran, Muhammad ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Crisis informatics; Humanitarian computing; Microblogging

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CRISIS INFORMATICS; HUMANITARIAN COMPUTING; MICROBLOGGING; RECENT RESEARCHES; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84914128953     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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