Emergency Event Understanding Assisted by Social Media
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Over the last decade, the presence of social media in today’s society has skyrocketed to the point where platforms such as Twitter are producing nearly 500 million Tweets a day [9]. These 500 million Tweets contain a wealth of information that if understood could help to understand mass public opinion. The project is focused on using Tweets to help garner an understanding of people’s reactions to emergency events. This information could be used to answer questions such as who is saying what, where they are saying it, and when they are saying it.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016