Using Social Media for Collaborative Species Identification and Occurrence: Issues, Methods, and Tools

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Citation: Dongpo Deng, Guan-Shuo Mai, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Te-En Lin, Hsu-Hong Lin, Kwang-Tsao Shao, Rob Lemmens, Menno-Jan Kraak (2012) Using Social Media for Collaborative Species Identification and Occurrence: Issues, Methods, and Tools. First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information 2012 (RSS)
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Data collection via social media has potential but its unstructured nature requires further processing. Authors describe 1) information extraction using Natural Language Processing 2) formalization of extracted information using Semantic Web techniques and 3) reuse and improvement, and application to postings in two citizen science Facebook groups, Reptile Road Mortality (in Chinese, 路殺社) and Enjoy Moths (in Chinese, 暮光之城).