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Social media has increasingly played a key role in emergency response: first responders can use public posts to better react to ongoing crisis events and deploy the necessary resources where they are most needed. Timeline extraction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Hossein Rajaby Faghihi , Bashar Alhafni , Ke Zhang , Shihao Ran , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

High-resolution satellite imagery available immediately after disaster events is crucial for response planning as it facilitates broad situational awareness of critical infrastructure status such as building damage, flooding, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Danil Kuzin , Olga Isupova , Brooke D. Simmons , Steven Reece

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 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

Despite the growing scale of medical Vision-Language datasets, the impact of dataset quality on model performance remains under-explored. We introduce Open-PMC, a high-quality medical dataset from PubMed Central, containing 2.2 million…

Advances in computing power, deep learning architectures, and expert labelled datasets have spurred the development of medical imaging artificial intelligence systems that rival clinical experts in a variety of scenarios. The National…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Rohan Shad , John P. Cunningham , Euan A. Ashley , Curtis P. Langlotz , William Hiesinger

With the increasing application of large language models (LLMs) in the medical domain, evaluating these models' performance using benchmark datasets has become crucial. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of various benchmark…

In recent years, the task of mining important information from social media posts during crises has become a focus of research for the purposes of assisting emergency response (ES). The TREC Incident Streams (IS) track is a research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Congcong Wang , David Lillis

Mental health disorders are rising worldwide. However, the availability of trained clinicians has not scaled proportionally, leaving many people without adequate or timely support. To bridge this gap, recent studies have shown the promise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aishik Mandal , Prottay Kumar Adhikary , Hiba Arnaout , Iryna Gurevych , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

Scientific figure interpretation is a crucial capability for AI-driven scientific assistants built on advanced Large Vision Language Models. However, current datasets and benchmarks primarily focus on simple charts or other relatively…

Effectively identifying threats and mitigating their potential damage during crisis situations, such as natural disasters or violent attacks, is paramount for safeguarding endangered individuals. To tackle these challenges, AI has been used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Giacomo Gonella , Gian Maria Campedelli , Stefano Menini , Marco Guerini

We introduce initial groundwork for estimating suicide risk and mental health in a deep learning framework. By modeling multiple conditions, the system learns to make predictions about suicide risk and mental health at a low false positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Adrian Benton , Margaret Mitchell , Dirk Hovy

Climate change has increased the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events and natural disasters across the world. While the increased data on natural disasters improves the scope of machine learning (ML) in this field,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Adiba Mahbub Proma , Md Saiful Islam , Stela Ciko , Raiyan Abdul Baten , Ehsan Hoque

Rapid information access is vital during wildfires, yet traditional data sources are slow and costly. Social media offers real-time updates, but extracting relevant insights remains a challenge. In this work, we focus on multimodal wildfire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Braeden Sherritt , Isar Nejadgholi , Efstratios Aivaliotis , Khaled Mslmani , Marzieh Amini

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

Understanding the performance of machine learning models across diverse data distributions is critically important for reliable applications. Motivated by this, there is a growing focus on curating benchmark datasets that capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Weixin Liang , James Zou

The analysis of natural disasters such as floods in a timely manner often suffers from limited data due to a coarse distribution of sensors or sensor failures. This limitation could be alleviated by leveraging information contained in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Björn Barz , Kai Schröter , Moritz Münch , Bin Yang , Andrea Unger , Doris Dransch , Joachim Denzler

In this paper, we introduce a new dataset in the medical field of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (HICH), called HICH-IT, which includes both electronic medical records (EMRs) and head CT images. This dataset is designed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jie Li , Yulong Xia , Tongxin Yang , Fenglin Cai , Miao Wei , Zhiwei Zhang , Li Jiang

Effective mental health support is crucial for alleviating psychological distress. While large language model (LLM)-based assistants have shown promise in mental health interventions, existing research often defines "effective" support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zeyad Alghamdi , Tharindu Kumarage , Garima Agrawal , Mansooreh Karami , Ibrahim Almuteb , Huan Liu