Identifying event impacts by monitoring the news media

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Abstract

Assessing the potential property and social impacts of an event, such as tornado or wild fire, continues to be a challenging research area. From financial markets to disaster management to epidemiology, the importance of understanding the impacts that events create cannot be understated. Our work describes an approach to fuse information from multiple sources, then to analyze the information cycles to identify prior temporal patterns related to the impact of an event. This approach is then applied to the analysis of news reports from multiple news sources pertaining to several different natural disasters. Results show that our approach can project the severity of the impacts of certain natural disasters, such as heat waves on droughts and wild fires. In addition, results show that specific types of disaster consistently produce similar impacts when each time they occur.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
Pages333-337
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Jul 9 2008Jul 11 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
ISSN (Print)1093-9547

Conference

Conference12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period07/9/0807/11/08

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