What Kind of #Communication is Twitter? A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Communication in Twitter for the Purpose of Emergency Coordination

Hemant Purohit, Andrew Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth, John Flach

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Abstract

The present research aims to detect coordinated citizen response within social media traffic to assist emergency response. We use domain-independent linguistic properties as the first step in narrowing the candidate set of messages for domain-dependent and computationally intensive analysis.

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jul 1 2012

Keywords

  • Conversation Analysis
  • Coordination
  • Crisis Computing
  • Crisis Informatics
  • Domain Independent Analysis
  • Emergency Response
  • Linguistics
  • Organization Sensemaking
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

Disciplines

  • Bioinformatics
  • Communication
  • Communication Technology and New Media
  • Computer Sciences
  • Databases and Information Systems
  • Life Sciences
  • OS and Networks
  • Physical Sciences and Mathematics
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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