TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying event impacts by monitoring the news media
AU - Patton, Robert M.
AU - Potok, Thomas E.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51749107672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IV.2008.49
DO - 10.1109/IV.2008.49
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51749107672
SN - 9780769532684
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
SP - 333
EP - 337
BT - Proceedings of 12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
T2 - 12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
Y2 - 9 July 2008 through 11 July 2008
ER -