A Case Study for Monitoring Fires with Twitter

Robert Power, Bella Robinson, John Colton, Mark A. Cameron
2015 International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management  
This paper presents a user configurable monitoring system to track in near-realtime tweets describing fire events. The system targets fire related words in a user defined region of interest published on Twitter which are further processed by a text classifier to determine if they describe a known fire event of interest. The system was motivated from a case study that examined a corpus of tweets posted during active bushfires. This demonstrated that useful information is available on Twitter
more » ... t fire events from people who are in the vicinity. We present an overview of the system describing how it is initially configured by a user to focus on specific fire events in Australia, the development of a text classifier to identify tweets of interest, especially those with accompanying photos, and the monitoring system that can track multiple events at once.
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