Identifying valuable information from twitter during natural disasters

• Published in: American Society for Information Science and Technology. Meeting. Proceedings of the ... ASIST Annual Meeting Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Truong, Brandon, Caragea, Cornelia, Squicciarini, Anna, Tapia, Andrea H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
• Subjects: Bayesian analysis; Classification; Classifiers; Digital media; Disaster relief; Hurricanes; Informational vs conversational tweets; Meetings; Natural disasters; Social networks; tweet classification

ABSTRACT 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 di...