A framework for detecting unfolding emergencies using humans as sensors

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Avvenuti, Marco ^a   Cimino, Mario G C A ^a   Cresci, Stefano ^b,c   Marchetti, Andrea ^c   Tesconi, Maurizio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crisis informatics; Emergency management; Event detection; Social media mining; Social sensing; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970036261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-1674-y     Document Type: Article

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