Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness
IEEE Intelligent SystemsPublished 7 February 2012
Jie Yin, Andrew Lampert, Mark Cameron, Bella Robinson, Robert Power
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The described system uses natural language processing and data mining techniques to extract situation awareness information from Twitter messages generated during various disasters and crises.
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