Situational Awareness from Social Media
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This paper describes VIStology’s HADRian system for semantically integrating disparate information sources into a common operational picture (COP) for humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HADR) operations. Here the system is applied to the task of determining where unexploded or additional bombs were being reported via Twitter in the hours immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in April, 2013. We provide an evaluation of the results and discuss future
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