We are now living in a mobile information era, which is fundamentally changing science and society. Location Based Services (LBS), which deliver information depending on the location …
Abstract Undoubtedly, coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused one of the biggest challenges of all times. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 150 million infected …
C Fan, C Zhang, A Yahja, A Mostafavi - International journal of information …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a vision for a Disaster City Digital Twin paradigm that can:(i) enable interdisciplinary convergence in the field of crisis informatics and information and …
W Xiang, B Wang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous important events happen everyday and everywhere but are reported in different media sources with different narrative styles. How to detect whether real-world events have …
U Can, B Alatas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …
HK Azad, A Deepak - Information Processing & Management, 2019 - Elsevier
With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …
The use of social media platforms such as Twitter significantly increases during natural hazards. With the emergence of several social media platforms over the past decade, many …
L Zhao - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Events are occurrences in specific locations, time, and semantics that nontrivially impact either our society or the nature, such as earthquakes, civil unrest, system failures …
Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …