Extracting Large Scale Spatio-Temporal Descriptions from Social Media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13281v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:16:43 GMT
• Title: Extracting Large Scale Spatio-Temporal Descriptions from Social Media
• Authors: Carlo Bono, Barbara Pernici
• Abstract summary: The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. We are exploring the hypothesis that this kind of data can be augmented with the ingestion of semi-structured data sources, like social media. Social media can diffuse valuable knowledge, such as direct witness or expert opinions, while their noisy nature makes them not trivial to manage.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. This is true, for example, in emergency management and decision-making support, where the constraints on both quality and latency of the extracted information can be stringent. In some contexts, real-time and large-scale sensor data and forecasts may be available. We are exploring the hypothesis that this kind of data can be augmented with the ingestion of semi-structured data sources, like social media. Social media can diffuse valuable knowledge, such as direct witness or expert opinions, while their noisy nature makes them not trivial to manage. This knowledge can be used to complement and confirm other spatio-temporal descriptions of events, highlighting previously unseen or undervalued aspects. The critical aspects of this investigation, such as event sensing, multilingualism, selection of visual evidence, and geolocation, are currently being studied as a foundation for a unified spatio-temporal representation of multi-modal descriptions. The paper presents, together with an introduction on the topics, the work done so far on this line of research, also presenting case studies relevant to the posed challenges, focusing on emergencies caused by natural disasters.

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