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Microblogging during the European Floods 2013: What Twitter May Contribute in German Emergencies

Reuter, Christian ; Schröter, Julian (2015)
Microblogging during the European Floods 2013: What Twitter May Contribute in German Emergencies.
In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), 7 (1)
doi: 10.4018/IJISCRAM.2015010102
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Social media is becoming more and more important in crisis management. However its analysis by emergency services still bears unaddressed challenges and the majority of studies focus on the use of social media in the USA. In this paper German tweets of the European Flood 2013 are therefore captured and analyzed using descriptive statistics, qualitative data coding, and computational algorithms. Our work illustrates that this event provided sufficient German traffic and geo-locations as well as enough original data (not derivative). However, up-to-date Named Entity Recognizer (NER) with German classifier could not recognize German rivers and highways satisfactorily. Furthermore our analysis revealed pragmatic (linguistic) barriers resulting from irony, wordplay, and ambiguity, as well as in retweet-behavior. To ease the analysis of data we suggest a retweet ratio, which is illustrated to be higher with important tweets and may help selecting tweets for mining. We argue that existing software has to be adapted and improved for German language characteristics, also to detect markedness, seriousness and truth

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2015
Autor(en): Reuter, Christian ; Schröter, Julian
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Microblogging during the European Floods 2013: What Twitter May Contribute in German Emergencies
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2015
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM)
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 7
(Heft-)Nummer: 1
DOI: 10.4018/IJISCRAM.2015010102
URL / URN: http://www.peasec.de/paper/2015/2015_ReuterSchroeter_Microbl...
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Social media is becoming more and more important in crisis management. However its analysis by emergency services still bears unaddressed challenges and the majority of studies focus on the use of social media in the USA. In this paper German tweets of the European Flood 2013 are therefore captured and analyzed using descriptive statistics, qualitative data coding, and computational algorithms. Our work illustrates that this event provided sufficient German traffic and geo-locations as well as enough original data (not derivative). However, up-to-date Named Entity Recognizer (NER) with German classifier could not recognize German rivers and highways satisfactorily. Furthermore our analysis revealed pragmatic (linguistic) barriers resulting from irony, wordplay, and ambiguity, as well as in retweet-behavior. To ease the analysis of data we suggest a retweet ratio, which is illustrated to be higher with important tweets and may help selecting tweets for mining. We argue that existing software has to be adapted and improved for German language characteristics, also to detect markedness, seriousness and truth

Freie Schlagworte: CSCW,EmerGent,HCI,Kooperation,SMO
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC)
Hinterlegungsdatum: 08 Jan 2019 13:29
Letzte Änderung: 22 Okt 2021 12:01
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