Assessing relevance of tweets for risk communication

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 781-801

  Liu, Xiaohui ^a   Kar, Bandana ^b   Zhang, Chaoyang ^c   Cochran, David M ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Content relevance; emergency management; risk communication; spatiotemporal data mining; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DATA MINING; DISASTERS; FLOODS; HYDRANTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONTENT RELEVANCE; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; RISK COMMUNICATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MINING; TWITTER;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; FLOOD; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047921801     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2018.1480670     Document Type: Article

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