Extracting precise location information from microblogs is a crucial task in many applications, particularly in disaster response, revealing where damages are, where people …
Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many …
M Häberle, M Werner, XX Zhu - European journal of remote …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
By the year 2050, it is expected that about 68% of global population will live in cities. To understand the emerging changes in urban structures, new data sources like social media …
The adequacy of traditional transport related issues detection is often limited by physical sparse sensor coverage and reporting incident/issues to the emergency response system is …
Extracting location names from informal and unstructured social media data requires the identification of referent boundaries and partitioning compound names. Variability …
The abundance and real-time availability of Twitter data have proved beneficial in detecting events in various domains such as emergency situations, crime detection, public health …
Exploring potentially useful information from huge amount of textual data produced by microblogging services has attracted much attention in recent years. An important …
Y Hu, J Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12914, 2020 - arxiv.org
Social media platforms, such as Twitter, have been increasingly used by people during natural disasters to share information and request for help. Hurricane Harvey was a category …
Social media platforms are playing increasingly critical roles in disaster response and rescue operations. During emergencies, users can post rescue requests along with their …