Twitter in mass emergency: what NLP techniques can contribute

Authors:
William J. Corvey;Sarah Vieweg;Travis Rood;Martha Palmer
Affiliations:
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Venue:
WSA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We detail methods for entity span identification and entity class annotation of Twitter communications that take place during times of mass emergency. We present our motivation, method and preliminary results.