Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting “Situational Awareness” Tweets During Mass Emergency

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 385-392

  Verma, Sudha ^a   Vieweg, Sarah ^b   Corvey, William J ^b   Palen, Leysia ^a   Martin, James H ^a   Palmer, Martha ^b   Schram, Aaron ^a   Anderson, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AM BROADCAST; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRISIS EVENTS; EMERGENCY EVENTS; GENERAL PUBLICS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MASS EMERGENCIES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85114199212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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