Using social media to enhance emergency situation awareness

Author(s)
Yin, J., Lampert, A., Cameron, M., Robinson, B. and Power, R.
Publication language
English
Pages
7pp
Date published
07 Feb 2012
Publisher
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Innovation

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.