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Using social media to enhance emergency situation awareness

Author(s): Yin, J., Lampert, A., Cameron, M., Robinson, B. and Power, R.

Journal: IEEE Intelligent Systems

Pages: 7pp
Resource types: Research and Studies
Languages: English
Areas of Work: Innovation and Change
Formats: Short read

Date published: 7 February 2012

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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