Twitter in mass emergency: what NLP techniques can contribute
Published 6 June 2010
William Corvey, Sarah Vieweg, Travis Rood, Martha Palmer
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Methods for entity span identification and entity class annotation of Twitter communications that take place during times of mass emergency are detailed.
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We detail methods for entity span identification and entity class annotation of Twitter communications that take place during times of mass emergency. We present our motivation, method and preliminary results. 1
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Social SciencesComputer Science
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