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Social media plays increasingly significant roles in disaster response, but effectively leveraging social media for rescue is challenging. This study analyzed rescue requests on Twitter during the 2017 Hurricane Harvey, in which many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lei Zou , Danqing Liao , Nina S. N. Lam , Michelle Meyer , Nasir G. Gharaibeh , Heng Cai , Bing Zhou , Dongying Li

The increasing popularity of social networks and users' tendency towards sharing their feelings, expressions, and opinions in text, visual, and audio content, have opened new opportunities and challenges in sentiment analysis. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Syed Zohaib Hassan , Kashif Ahmad , Steven Hicks , Paal Halvorsen , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Nicola Conci , Michael Riegler

Social networks are widely used for information consumption and dissemination, especially during time-critical events such as natural disasters. Despite its significantly large volume, social media content is often too noisy for direct use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Firoj Alam , Umair Qazi , Muhammad Imran , Ferda Ofli

Effective disaster response is critical for affected communities. Responders and decision-makers would benefit from reliable, timely measures of the issues impacting their communities during a disaster, and social media offers a potentially…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Zihui Ma , Lingyao Li , Libby Hemphill , Gregory B. Baecher , Yubai Yuan

Disaster events often unfold rapidly, necessitating a swift and effective response. Developing action plans, resource allocation, and resolution of help requests in disaster scenarios is time-consuming and complex since disaster-relevant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Samia Abid , Bhupesh Kumar Mishra , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Nishikant Mishra

Social media posts contain an abundant amount of information about public opinion on major events, especially natural disasters such as hurricanes. Posts related to an event, are usually published by the users who live near the place of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Songhui Yue , Jyothsna Kondari , Aibek Musaev , Randy K. Smith , Songqing Yue

During a disaster event, two types of information that are especially useful for coordinating relief operations are needs and availabilities of resources (e.g., food, water, medicines) in the affected region. Information posted on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ritam Dutt , Moumita Basu , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Online social microblogging platforms including Twitter are increasingly used for aiding relief operations during disaster events. During most of the calamities that can be natural disasters or even armed attacks, non-governmental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Bhaskar Gautam , Annappa Basava

Social media has become an important tool to share information about crisis events such as natural disasters and mass attacks. Detecting actionable posts that contain useful information requires rapid analysis of huge volume of data in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Evangelia Spiliopoulou , Salvador Medina Maza , Eduard Hovy , Alexander Hauptmann

Tweet hashtags have the potential to improve the search for information during disaster events. However, there is a large number of disaster-related tweets that do not have any user-provided hashtags. Moreover, only a small number of tweets…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea

Microblogging sites like Twitter and Weibo have emerged as important sourcesof real-time information on ongoing events, including socio-political events, emergency events, and so on. For instance, during emergency events (such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Prannay Khosla , Moumita Basu , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

The integration of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) into disaster management, particularly for earthquake response, represents a profound evolution in emergency management practices. In the digital age, real-time information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kalin Kopanov , Velizar Varbanov , Tatiana Atanasova

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook etc can be utilised as an important source of information during disaster events. This information can be used for disaster response and crisis management if processed accurately and quickly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Aman Priyanshu , Mudit Sinha , Shreyans Mehta

Massive and diverse web data are increasingly vital for government disaster response, as demonstrated by the 2022 floods in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This study examines how X (formerly Twitter) and public inquiry submissions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xian Gong , Paul X. McCarthy , Lin Tian , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Real-time social media data can provide useful information on evolving hazards. Alongside traditional methods of disaster detection, the integration of social media data can considerably enhance disaster management. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Adrian Paschke

Thousands of human lives are lost every year around the globe, apart from significant damage on property, animal life, etc., due to natural disasters (e.g., earthquake, flood, tsunami, hurricane and other storms, landslides, cloudburst,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Saptarsi Goswami , Sanjay Chakraborty , Sanhita Ghosh , Amlan Chakrabarti , Basabi Chakraborty

During a disaster event, images shared on social media helps crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. Recent advances in computer vision and deep neural networks have enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Tanvirul Alam , Umair Qazi

Timely and reliable sensing of infrastructure conditions is critical in disaster management for planning effective infrastructure restorations. Social media, a near real-time information source, has been widely used in disasters for forming…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yudi Chen , Angel Umana , Chaowei Yang , Wenying JI

During natural disasters, people often use social media platforms such as Twitter to ask for help, to provide information about the disaster situation, or to express contempt about the unfolding event or public policies and guidelines. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tiberiu Sosea , Junyi Jessy Li , Cornelia Caragea

Social media is often utilized as a lifeline for communication during natural disasters. Traditionally, natural disaster tweets are filtered from the Twitter stream using the name of the natural disaster and the filtered tweets are sent for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ramya Tekumalla , Juan M. Banda