Road-Related Information Mining from Social Media Data: A Joint Relation Extraction and Entity Recognition Approach

Social media data have been gradually regarded as a prospective social sensor in the transportation domain for capturing road conditions. Most existing social media data-based sensors (SMDbSs) of road conditions, however, rely heavily on lexicon-based methods for information extraction and provide coarse-grained location information. Hence, this work newly devises an SMDbS based on joint relation extraction and entity recognition for sensing road conditions from social media data, which eliminates the reliance on lexicon-based methods and offers finer-grained location information in comparison with existing SMDbSs. This SMDbS development consists of four major steps, including data collection and annotation, data cleansing, two-stage information extraction, and model verification. A tweet dataset in Lexington city is exploited to demonstrate this SMDbS, which shows satisfactory information extraction performance. This study would help facilitate social media data to be an extra information source in the transportation domain.

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