自然或人為災難皆可能導致嚴重的人員傷亡和經濟損失，因此對相關機構而言最具挑戰性的任務之一，就是迅速且準確地掌握災難事件的最新狀況。而隨著近年來社群媒體 (如Twitter、Facebook、PTT等) 的普及，使得災難現場目擊的民眾可以藉由社群媒體發送即時訊息，以迅速聯繫親朋好友並分享相關資訊與照片、影音等，此一資訊傳播方式往往比傳統媒體中的新聞報導更加快速，而成為新型態的資訊管道。在本研究中，我們提出一套方法流程，去改善我們原有的監測災難事件輔助系統在對於社群媒體中識別與災難相關訊息的效果，並從原先視單一訊息為一獨立單位，轉為以事件為一個單位，將描述相同事件的相關資訊進行統整，幫助相關災難應變機構更全面地了解災難現場情況。

Natural and man-made disasters both cause serious casualties and economic damages. Therefore, one of the most challenging tasks for agencies is to rapidly and accurately identify the latest status of a disaster event. With the recent widespread of social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, and PTT,) people may easily disseminate and share what they see and hear when they witness a severe accident. These massive and instant messages containing texts, photos and video may form a new type of channel that usually spreads information faster than traditional media do. In this work, we thus propose a scheme that improves the effectiveness of identifying disaster-related messages from social media streams. Also, we further attempt to aggregate messages describing an identical event. This is crucial in helping disaster management agencies to understand the situation in a more comprehensive way.

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