Emergency Situation Awareness from Twitter for Crisis Management

Posted on February 20, 2013 | by admin

An external publication has been added to the Publications page: Mark A. Cameron, Robert Power, Bella Robinson, Jie Yin “Emergency Situation Awareness from Twitter for Crisis Management”, SWDM 2012. It describes the work done at CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia to detect, assess, summarize, and report messages of interest published by Twitter for crisis coordination purposes.

Disasters affect many people in many countries. GRAIT-DM (Global Research on Applying Information Technology for Disaster Management) is an international collaborative effort. The multi-hazard research represented by LITMUS is an international collaboration with Japan, and a growing partnership with many countries affected by landslides such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia. Successful detection and prediction of multi-hazards will have significant human, social, and economic benefits with positive impact on the people around the world.