Identifying disruptive events from social media to enhance situational awareness

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 934-941

  Alsaedi, Nasser ^a   Burnap, Pete ^a   Rana, Omer ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data mining; Event detection; Feature selection

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DECISION SUPPORTS; DISRUPTIVE EVENT; EVENT DETECTION; ON-LINE INFORMATION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL FEATURES; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962512923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2808797.2808879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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