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Social Networking Sites For The Detection Of Traffic Essay

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ABSTRACT Nowadays social networking sites play a major role in providing information to public. This paper discusses the social networking site twitter. Twitter as a social networking site can be used as a source of information for event detection with reference to traffic congestion and road accidents. In this paper we consider a real time monitoring system for the detection of traffic in metropolitan cities. For this approach, the system fetches information from the status update messages of twitter. The system thus fetches each tweets from the update messages. Then the tweets are processed in a way to extract useful information from the tweet. Each tweets are subjected to various data mining process and thus the useful information is mined from those data. Keywords:-Part of speech tagging, Natural language processing, Status update messages. 1. Introduction Social networking sites are used as a source of information in event detection for traffic congestion and road accidents. Today social networking sites like Facebook, twitter have gained a high popularity through their real time information broadcasting channel. People mainly use social networking sites to report (public or personal) real life events around them to gain a public attention and also to express their genuine opinion in a particular topic. These messages are shared public among all the users in a social networking sites. Thus each updated messages in these sites gain a high popularity. Our paper discusses

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