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Social sensing of high-impact rainfall events worldwide: a benchmark comparison against manually curated impact observations

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2021
. Impact-based weather forecasting and warnings create the need for reliable sources of impact data to generate and evaluate models and forecasts. Here we compare outputs from social sensing – analysis of unsolicited social media data, in this case from ...
M. Spruce   +3 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

TBCOV: Two Billion Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Sentiment, Entity, Geo, and Gender Labels

open access: yesData, 2022
As the world struggles with several compounded challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the health, economic, and social domains, timely access to disaggregated national and sub-national data are important to understand the emergent situation but it
Muhammad Imran, Umair Qazi, Ferda Ofli
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Scalability and Time-Sensitiveness in Reliable Social Sensing With Accuracy Assessment

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2017
This paper presents a scalable estimation theoretic framework to address the time-sensitive truth discovery problem with accuracy assessment in social sensing applications. Social sensing has emerged as a new application paradigm that provides us with an
Chao Huang, Dong Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Inferring Person-to-person Proximity Using WiFi Signals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors.
Lehmann, Sune   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

A Trust-based Recruitment Framework for Multi-hop Social Participatory Sensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The idea of social participatory sensing provides a substrate to benefit from friendship relations in recruiting a critical mass of participants willing to attend in a sensing campaign.
Amintoosi, Haleh, Kanhere, Salil S.
core   +1 more source

Using Social Media for Attendees Density Estimation in City-Scale Events

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2018
City-scale events attract large amounts of attendees in temporarily re-purposed urban environments. In this setting, the real-time measurement of the density of attendees stationing in-or moving through-the event terrain is central to applications, such ...
V. X. Gong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of Barriers to Mobility in the Smart City Using Twitter

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
We present a system that analyzes data extracted from the microbloging site Twitter to detect the occurrence of events and obstacles that can affect pedestrian mobility, with a special focus on people with impaired mobility.
Mario Sanchez-Avila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor.
Barnden, John, Zhang, Li
core   +3 more sources

Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type : an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study explores the variation in levels of bonding social capital experienced by individual churchgoers, drawing on data generated by the Australian National Church Life Survey, and employing a five-item measure of church-related bonding social ...
Baker C   +27 more
core   +1 more source

COVIDSensing: Social Sensing Strategy for the Management of the COVID-19 Crisis

open access: yesElectronics, 2021
The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to be critical for reducing its dramatic effects. Social sensing can analyse user-contributed data posted daily in social-media services, where participants are seen as Social Sensors.
A. Sepúlveda   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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