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      Detecting Emergency Situations by Inferring Locations in Twitter

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      Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA)
      Future Directions in Information Access
      5 September 2017
      Information Retrieval, Emergency Situation, Citizen Sensors, Social Media
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            Abstract

            Most methods to detect emergency situations using Twitter rely on keywords. The problem with keywordbased methods is the need for training in specific domains for different types of events, for example: earthquakes, typhoons, terrorist attacks, tornadeos, etc. In contrast, our proposal uses the recurring mention of a country-locations in microblogging messages to identify such events without using keywords and characterize through of inter-arrival times the urgency of situation.

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            Contributors
            Conference
            September 2017
            September 2017
            : 1-4
            Affiliations
            [0001]Center for Semantic Web Research

            Deparment of Computer Science

            University of Chile, Beauchef 851, Santiago, 8370456, Chile
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.7
            2404c20a-f6b7-41ea-8cd0-39940cfd2206
            © Sarmiento. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2017

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            Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access
            FDIA
            7
            Barcelona, Spain
            5 September 2017
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Future Directions in Information Access
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.7
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Information Retrieval,Emergency Situation,Citizen Sensors,Social Media

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