Disaster hashtags in social media

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Murzintcev, Nikita ^a,b,d   Cheng, Changxiu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Disasters; Hashtags; Information retrieval; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026401494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6070204     Document Type: Article

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