Integrating social media with existing knowledge and information for crisis response
Jones, Gareth J.F. (2011) Integrating social media with existing knowledge and information for crisis response. In: The 3rd Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM 2011): Analysis of User Generated Content Under Crisis at SIGIR 2011, 28 July 2011, Beijing, China.
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Existing studies on social media in the context of crisis have studied the content of items and their patterns of transmission. However, social media content generated during
a crisis will generally be unstructured and only reflect the
immediate experiences of the authors, while the volumes of
data created can make rapid interpretation very challenging.
Crisis situations can be characterized with various expected
attributes. In many situations there will be large amounts of information relevant to the situation already available. We argue that existing natural language engineering technologies can be integrated with emerging social media content utilization techniques for more powerful exploitation of social media content in crisis response.
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