Identifying valuable information from twitter during natural disasters
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Identifying Valuable Information from Twitter During Natural Disasters
Social media is a vital source of information during any major event, especially natural disasters. However, with the exponential increase in volume of social media data, so comes the increase in conversational data that does not provide valuable information, especially in the context of disaster events, thus, diminishing peoples’ ability to find the information that they need in order to organ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101162