Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets

The construction method for chains of disasters or events is still one of the core scientific questions in studying the common rules of disaster’s evolution. Especially when dealing with the complexity and diversity of disasters, it is critical to make a further investigation on reducing the depende...

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Main Authors: Liang Zheng, Fei Wang, Xiaocui Zheng, Binbin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-11-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Earth
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2018.1514082
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author Liang Zheng
Fei Wang
Xiaocui Zheng
Binbin Liu
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Fei Wang
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Binbin Liu
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description The construction method for chains of disasters or events is still one of the core scientific questions in studying the common rules of disaster’s evolution. Especially when dealing with the complexity and diversity of disasters, it is critical to make a further investigation on reducing the dependency of prior knowledge and supporting the comprehensive chains of disasters. This paper tries to propose a novel approach, through collecting the big scholar and social news data with disaster-related keywords, analysing the strength of their relationships with the co-word analysis method, and constructing a complex network of all defined disaster types, in order to finally intelligently extract the unique disaster chain of a specific disaster type. Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar and Sina News search engines are employed to acquire the needed data, and the respectively obtained disaster chains are compared with each other to show the robustness of our proposed approach. The achieved disaster chains are also compared with the ones concluded from existing research methods, and the very reasonable result is demonstrated. There is a great potential to apply this novel method in disaster management domain to find more secrets about disasters.
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spelling doaj.art-d6769849ec024ed98cdf53d5d9bb7d202023-09-21T14:57:08ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Digital Earth1753-89471753-89552019-11-0112111341136310.1080/17538947.2018.15140821514082Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasetsLiang Zheng0Fei Wang1Xiaocui Zheng2Binbin Liu3Tsinghua UniversityTsinghua UniversityTsinghua UniversityTsinghua UniversityThe construction method for chains of disasters or events is still one of the core scientific questions in studying the common rules of disaster’s evolution. Especially when dealing with the complexity and diversity of disasters, it is critical to make a further investigation on reducing the dependency of prior knowledge and supporting the comprehensive chains of disasters. This paper tries to propose a novel approach, through collecting the big scholar and social news data with disaster-related keywords, analysing the strength of their relationships with the co-word analysis method, and constructing a complex network of all defined disaster types, in order to finally intelligently extract the unique disaster chain of a specific disaster type. Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar and Sina News search engines are employed to acquire the needed data, and the respectively obtained disaster chains are compared with each other to show the robustness of our proposed approach. The achieved disaster chains are also compared with the ones concluded from existing research methods, and the very reasonable result is demonstrated. There is a great potential to apply this novel method in disaster management domain to find more secrets about disasters.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2018.1514082disaster chainco-occurrence analysisco-word analysiscommunity divisioncomplex networkdata miningdisaster management
spellingShingle Liang Zheng
Fei Wang
Xiaocui Zheng
Binbin Liu
Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
International Journal of Digital Earth
disaster chain
co-occurrence analysis
co-word analysis
community division
complex network
data mining
disaster management
title Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
title_full Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
title_fullStr Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
title_full_unstemmed Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
title_short Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
title_sort discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets
topic disaster chain
co-occurrence analysis
co-word analysis
community division
complex network
data mining
disaster management
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2018.1514082
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