DocumentCode :
2292329
Title :
Identifying Event Impacts by Monitoring the News Media
Author :
Patton, Robert M. ; Potok, Thomas E.
Author_Institution :
Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., Oak Ridge, TN
fYear :
2008
fDate :
9-11 July 2008
Firstpage :
333
Lastpage :
337
Abstract :
Assessing the potential property and social impacts of an event, such as tornado or wildfire, 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.
Keywords :
disasters; information resources; social aspects of automation; disaster management; droughts; epidemiology; event impacts; financial markets; heat waves; information fusion; natural disasters; news media monitoring; social impacts; temporal patterns; tornado; wild fires; wildfire; Blogs; Books; Event detection; Fires; Information analysis; Laboratories; Marketing and sales; Remote monitoring; US Government; Visualization; event detection; time series;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualisation, 2008. IV '08. 12th International Conference
Conference_Location :
London
ISSN :
1550-6037
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3268-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2008.49
Filename :
4577968
Link To Document :
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