Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness: Extended Abstract

Yin, Jie; Karimi, Sarvnaz; Lampert, Andrew; Cameron, Mark A.; Robinson, Bella; Power, Robert

Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness: Extended Abstract

Jie Yin, Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Lampert, Mark A. Cameron, Bella Robinson, Robert Power

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Journal Track. Pages 4234-4238.

Abstract

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, offer a rich source of real-time information about real-world events, particularly during mass emergencies. Sifting valuable information from social media provides useful insight into time-critical situations for emergency officers to understand the impact of hazards and act on emergency responses in a timely manner. This work focuses on analyzing Twitter messages generated during natural disasters, and shows how natural language processing and data mining techniques can be utilized to extract situation awareness information from Twitter. We present key relevant approaches that we have investigated including burst detection, tweet filtering and classification, online clustering, and geotagging.

Jie Yin, Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Lampert, Mark A. Cameron, Bella Robinson, and Robert Power. 2015. Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness: Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-15. IJCAI, 4234–4238. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/602

@inproceedings{ijcai2015p602,
  title     = {Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness: Extended Abstract},
  author    = {Yin, Jie and Karimi, Sarvnaz and Lampert, Andrew and Cameron, Mark A. and Robinson, Bella and Power, Robert},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-15}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
  editor    = {Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge},
  pages     = {4234--4238},
  year      = {2015},
  month     = {7},
  note      = {Journal Track},
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}

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