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Table 2 List of the topic labels and the top 10 most important words from the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) for each cluster

From: A quantitative approach to the 2014 Mt. Ontake volcanic eruption news coverage: understanding the information gap and the public response to the anniversary coverage

Cluster #

Top 10 words

Topic label

1 (anniversary)

regulation, mountaineering, lift a warning, Otaki (place name), village, tourism, a mountain cabin, summit, investigation, town

Mt. Ontake’s volcanic warning status

2

evacuation, plan, research, (warning) level, prefecture, the bereaved, disaster prevention, municipality, earthquake, Kusatsu (place name)

Municipalities’ volcanic emergency plans

3 (anniversary)

search, commemoration, volcano, regulation, Otaki (place name), the bereaved, photo, eulogy, disclosure, Nagano (place name)

Human interest

4

(Mt. Ontake Volcano) Meister, Kiso (place name), climbing, prefecture, (evacuation) shelter, research, disaster prevention, consider, plan, evacuation

Lessons learned from the 2014 Mt. Ontake eruption

5

advance team, shelters, investigation, Gifu (place name), Nagano (place name), establish (a task force), volcano, family, a prefectural governor, send (a rescue team)

Searching for missing persons

  1. The first column shows the cluster number (#). The label “anniversary” indicates that there was a lot of coverage during an anniversary month. “Top 10 most important words” means the ten highest keywords, weighted by their TF-IDF for each cluster