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A Case Study for Monitoring Fires with Twitter
Robert Power
Bella Robinson
John Colton
Mark Cameron
L. Palen
M. Buscher
T. Comes
A. Hughes
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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citation:Robert Power, Bella Robinson, John Colton, & Mark Cameron. (2015). A Case Study for Monitoring Fires with Twitter. In L. Palen, M. Buscher, T. Comes, & A. Hughes (Eds.), ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Kristiansand, Norway: University of Agder (UiA).
2015
ConferencePaper
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Disaster Management
Situational Awareness
social media
Twitter
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/robertpower/2015/1237_RobertPower_etal2015.pdf
University of Agder (UiA)
English
2411-3387
ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2015
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