Infrastructure Ombudsman: Mining Future Failure Concerns from Structural Disaster Response

Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury; Soumyajit Datta; Naveen Sharma; Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

doi:10.1145/3589334.3648153

Infrastructure Ombudsman: Mining Future Failure Concerns from Structural Disaster Response

Computers and Society 2024-02-23 v2 Computation and Language Machine Learning Social and Information Networks

Authors: Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury , Soumyajit Datta , Naveen Sharma , Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

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Abstract

Current research concentrates on studying discussions on social media related to structural failures to improve disaster response strategies. However, detecting social web posts discussing concerns about anticipatory failures is under-explored. If such concerns are channeled to the appropriate authorities, it can aid in the prevention and mitigation of potential infrastructural failures. In this paper, we develop an infrastructure ombudsman -- that automatically detects specific infrastructure concerns. Our work considers several recent structural failures in the US. We present a first-of-its-kind dataset of 2,662 social web instances for this novel task mined from Reddit and YouTube.

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disaster response

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@article{arxiv.2402.13528,
  title  = {Infrastructure Ombudsman: Mining Future Failure Concerns from Structural Disaster Response},
  author = {Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury and Soumyajit Datta and Naveen Sharma and Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13528},
  year   = {2024}
}

Infrastructure Ombudsman: Mining Future Failure Concerns from Structural Disaster Response

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