%0 Conference Paper %1 Vieweg:2010:MDT:1753326.1753486 %A Vieweg, Sarah %A Hughes, Amanda L. %A Starbird, Kate %A Palen, Leysia %B Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems %C New York, NY, USA %D 2010 %I ACM %K crisis hazard k3 twitter %P 1079--1088 %R 10.1145/1753326.1753486 %T Microblogging During Two Natural Hazards Events: What Twitter May Contribute to Situational Awareness %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753486 %X We analyze microblog posts generated during two recent, concurrent emergency events in North America via Twitter, a popular microblogging service. We focus on communications broadcast by people who were ön the ground" during the Oklahoma Grassfires of April 2009 and the Red River Floods that occurred in March and April 2009, and identify information that may contribute to enhancing situational awareness (SA). This work aims to inform next steps for extracting useful, relevant information during emergencies using information extraction (IE) techniques. %@ 978-1-60558-929-9

@inproceedings{Vieweg:2010:MDT:1753326.1753486, abstract = {We analyze microblog posts generated during two recent, concurrent emergency events in North America via Twitter, a popular microblogging service. We focus on communications broadcast by people who were "on the ground" during the Oklahoma Grassfires of April 2009 and the Red River Floods that occurred in March and April 2009, and identify information that may contribute to enhancing situational awareness (SA). This work aims to inform next steps for extracting useful, relevant information during emergencies using information extraction (IE) techniques.}, acmid = {1753486}, added-at = {2016-01-27T14:11:49.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Vieweg, Sarah and Hughes, Amanda L. and Starbird, Kate and Palen, Leysia}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24f09d7cc9d6ebac5719dc56f18cf1d47/asmelash}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, description = {Microblogging during two natural hazards events}, doi = {10.1145/1753326.1753486}, interhash = {f085a44764ca243c746942b732428754}, intrahash = {4f09d7cc9d6ebac5719dc56f18cf1d47}, isbn = {978-1-60558-929-9}, keywords = {crisis hazard k3 twitter}, location = {Atlanta, Georgia, USA}, numpages = {10}, pages = {1079--1088}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {CHI '10}, timestamp = {2016-01-27T14:11:49.000+0100}, title = {Microblogging During Two Natural Hazards Events: What Twitter May Contribute to Situational Awareness}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753486}, year = 2010 }