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This study examines machine learning methods used in crisis management. Analyzing detected patterns from a crisis involves the collection and evaluation of historical or near-real-time datasets through automated means. This paper utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Izunna Okpala , Shane Halse , Jess Kropczynski

Humanitarian action is accompanied by a mass of reports, summaries, news, and other documents. To guide its activities, important information must be quickly extracted from such free-text resources. Quantities, such as the number of people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Daniele Liberatore , Kyriaki Kalimeri , Derya Sever , Yelena Mejova

Along with climate change, more frequent extreme events, such as flooding and tropical cyclones, threaten the livelihoods and wellbeing of poor and vulnerable populations. One of the most immediate needs of people affected by a disaster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Karla Saldana Ochoa , Tina Comes

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human life. To mitigate the pandemic's impacts, different regions implemented various policies to contain COVID-19 and residents showed diverse responses. These human responses in turn shaped the uneven…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-17 Binbin Lin , Lei Zou , Mingzheng Yang , Bing Zhou , Debayan Mandal , Joynal Abedin , Heng Cai , Ning Ning

Data-driven decision making has been a common task in today's big data era, from simple choices such as finding a fast way to drive home, to complex decisions on medical treatment. It is often supported by visual analytics. For various…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Maoyuan Sun , Yue Ma , Yuanxin Wang , Tianyi Li , Jian Zhao , Yujun Liu , Ping-Shou Zhong

The ever-increase in the quality and quantity of data generated from day-to-day businesses operations in conjunction with the continuously imported related social data have made the traditional statistical approaches inadequate to tackle…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Bilal Abu-Salih , Pornpit Wongthongtham , Dengya Zhu , Kit Yan Chan , Amit Rudra

This paper presents our research on leveraging social media Big Data and AI to support hurricane disaster emergency response. The current practice of hurricane emergency response for rescue highly relies on emergency call centres. The more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jingwei Huang , Wael Khallouli , Ghaith Rabadi , Mamadou Seck

Social media has quickly grown into an essential tool for people to communicate and express their needs during crisis events. Prior work in analyzing social media data for crisis management has focused primarily on automatically identifying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Swati Padhee , Tanay Kumar Saha , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on Twitter for several disaster response tasks. However, making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Michael Aupetit

Social media analysis of disaster events is a critical task in crisis informatics research. It involves analyzing social media data generated during natural disasters, crisis events, or other mass convergence events. Due to the large data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Gerard Casas Saez

Social media data has been increasingly used to facilitate situational awareness during events and emergencies such as natural disasters. While researchers have investigated several methods to summarize, visualize or mine the data for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luke S. Snyder , Morteza Karimzadeh , Christina Stober , David S. Ebert

The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data is a growing problem within the scientific community. The growing gap between data and users calls for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume, velocity…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Vijay Gadepally , Jeremy Kepner

While manufacturers have been generating highly distributed data from various systems, devices and applications, a number of challenges in both data management and data analysis require new approaches to support the big data era. These…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-14 JunPing Wang , WenSheng Zhang , YouKang Shi , ShiHui Duan , Jin Liu

Emotion mining has become a crucial tool for understanding human emotions during disasters, leveraging the extensive data generated on social media platforms. This paper aims to summarize existing research on emotion mining within disaster…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Soheil Shapouri , Saber Soleymani , Saed Rezayi

The modern era is characterised as an era of information or Big Data. This has motivated a huge literature on new methods for extracting information and insights from these data. A natural question is how these approaches differ from those…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-09 Farzana Jahan , Insha Ullah , Kerrie L Mengersen

In large-scale emergencies social media has become a key source of information for public awareness, government authorities and relief agencies. However, the sheer volume of data and the low signal-to- noise ratio limit the effectiveness…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Wanita Sherchan , Shaila Pervin , Christopher J. Butler , Jennifer C. Lai

Responding to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and wildfires, is a laborious task performed by on-the-ground emergency responders and analysts. Social media has emerged as a low-latency data source to quickly understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ethan Weber , Nuria Marzo , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Aritro Biswas , Agata Lapedriza , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Antonio Torralba

Informatics and technological advancements have triggered generation of huge volume of data with varied complexity in its management and analysis. Big Data analytics is the practice of revealing hidden aspects of such data and making…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Bikram Karmakar , Indranil Mukhopadhyay

Advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning have catalyzed the transformation of big data analytics and management into pivotal domains for research and application. This work explores the theoretical…

In high-stakes disaster scenarios, timely and informed decision-making is critical yet often challenged by uncertainty, dynamic environments, and limited resources. This paper presents a systematic review of Human-AI collaboration patterns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Emmanuel Adjei Domfeh , Christopher L. Dancy