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Author | Robert Power; Bella Robinson; John Colton; Mark Cameron | ||||
Title | A Case Study for Monitoring Fires with Twitter | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2015 | Publication | ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | Abbreviated Journal | ISCRAM 2015 |
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Keywords | Disaster Management; Situational Awareness; social media; Twitter | ||||
Abstract | This paper presents a user configurable monitoring system to track in near-real-time tweets describing fire events. The system targets fire related words in a user defined region of interest published on Twitter which are further processed by a text classifier to determine if they describe a known fire event of interest. The system was motivated from a case study that examined a corpus of tweets posted during active bushfires. This demonstrated that useful information is available on Twitter about fire events from people who are in the vicinity. We present an overview of the system describing how it is initially configured by a user to focus on specific fire events in Australia, the development of a text classifier to identify tweets of interest, especially those with accompanying photos, and the monitoring system that can track multiple events at once. |
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Publisher | University of Agder (UiA) | Place of Publication | Kristiansand, Norway | Editor | L. Palen; M. Buscher; T. Comes; A. Hughes |
Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 9788271177881 | Medium | |
Track | Social Media Studies | Expedition | Conference | ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | |
Notes | Approved | yes | |||
Call Number | Serial | 1237 | |||
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Author | Robert Power; Bella Robinson; Mark Cameron | ||||
Title | Insights from a Decade of Twitter Monitoring for Emergency Management | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2023 | Publication | Proceedings of the ISCRAM Asia Pacific Conference 2022 | Abbreviated Journal | Proc. ISCRAM AP 2022 |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 247-257 | ||
Keywords | Crisis Coordination; Disaster Management; Situation Awareness; Social Media; System Architecture; Twitter | ||||
Abstract | The Emergency Situation Awareness (ESA) tool began as a research study into automated web text mining to support emergency management use cases. It started in late 2009 by investigating how people respond on Twitter to specific emergency events and we quickly realized that every emergency situation is different and preemptively defining keywords to search for content on Twitter beforehand would likely miss important information. So, in late September 2011 we established location-based searches with the aim of collecting all the tweets published in Australia and New Zealand. This was the beginning of over a decade of collecting and processing tweets to help emergency response agencies and crisis coordination centres use social media content as a new channel of information to support their work practices and to engage with the community impacted by emergency events. This journey has seen numerous challenges overcome to continuously maintain a tweet stream for an operational system. This experience allows us to derive insights into the changing use of Twitter over this time. In this paper we present some of the lessons we’ve learned from maintaining a Twitter monitoring system for emergency management use cases and we provide some insights into the changing nature of Twitter usage by users over this period. | ||||
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Publisher | Massey Unversity | Place of Publication | Palmerston North, New Zealand | Editor | Thomas J. Huggins, V.L. |
Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 978-0-473-66845-7 | Medium | |
Track | Social Media for Disaster Response | Expedition | Conference | ||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | ISCRAM @ idladmin @ | Serial | 2498 | ||
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