Sentiment analysis during Hurricane Sandy in emergency response

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 21, Issue , 2017, Pages 213-222

  Squicciarini, Anna ^b   Tapia, Andrea ^b   Stehle, Sam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster related tweets; Emotional divergence; Hurricane Sandy; Retweetability; Sentiment classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007394165     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.12.011     Document Type: Article

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