Processing social media messages in Mass Emergency: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Imran, Muhammad ^a   Castillo, Carlos ^a   Diaz, Fernando ^b   Vieweg, Sarah ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis computing; Disastermanagement; Mass emergencies; Socialmedia

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

CLASSICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; CRISIS COMPUTING; DISASTERMANAGEMENT; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; MASS EMERGENCIES; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; SOCIALMEDIA;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84937924932     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2771588     Document Type: Article

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