Traffic accident detection is an important strategy governments can use to implement
policies intended to reduce accidents. They usually use techniques such as image
processing, RFID devices, among others. Social network mining has emerged as a low-cost
alternative. However, social networks come with several challenges such as informal
language and misspellings. This paper proposes a method to extract traffic accident data
from Twitter in Spanish. The method consists of four phases. The first phase establishes the …