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In the field of crisis/disaster informatics, social media is increasingly being used for improving situational awareness to inform response and relief efforts. Efficient and accurate text classification tools have been a focal area of…

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Images shared on social media help crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. As the volume and velocity of such content are typically high, real-time image classification has become…

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Accurately predicting the time of occurrence of an event of interest is a critical problem in longitudinal data analysis. One of the main challenges in this context is the presence of instances whose event outcomes become unobservable after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-26 Ping Wang , Yan Li , Chandan K. Reddy

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

The current flood of information in all areas of machine learning research, from computer vision to reinforcement learning, has made it difficult to make aggregate scientific inferences. It can be challenging to distill a myriad of similar…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Peter Henderson , Emma Brunskill

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

Semi-supervised learning approaches have been investigated as a means to enhance the analysis of social media data in disaster management contexts. In this work, we present the first empirical evaluation of large language model (LLM) guided…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jacob Ativo , Bharaneeshwar Balasubramaniyam , Anh Tran , Khushboo Gupta , Hongmin Li , Doina Caragea , Cornelia Caragea

The global increase in mental illness requires innovative detection methods for early intervention. Social media provides a valuable platform to identify mental illness through user-generated content. This systematic review examines machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuchen Cao , Jianglai Dai , Zhongyan Wang , Yeyubei Zhang , Xiaorui Shen , Yunchong Liu , Yexin Tian

Social media data has emerged as a useful source of timely information about real-world crisis events. One of the main tasks related to the use of social media for disaster management is the automatic identification of crisis-related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Cinthia Sánchez , Hernan Sarmiento , Andres Abeliuk , Jorge Pérez , Barbara Poblete

A timely and effective response is crucial to minimize damage and save lives during natural disasters like earthquakes. Microblogging platforms, particularly Twitter, have emerged as valuable real-time information sources for such events.…

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Social media has enabled people to circulate information in a timely fashion, thus motivating people to post messages seeking help during crisis situations. These messages can contribute to the situational awareness of emergency responders,…

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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

Individuals on social media may reveal themselves to be in various states of crisis (e.g. suicide, self-harm, abuse, or eating disorders). Detecting crisis from social media text automatically and accurately can have profound consequences.…

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Detecting cyber-anomalies and attacks are becoming a rising concern these days in the domain of cybersecurity. The knowledge of artificial intelligence, particularly, the machine learning techniques can be used to tackle these issues.…

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The shared real-time information about natural disasters on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook plays a critical role in informing volunteers, emergency managers, and response organizations. However, supervised learning models…

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For preventing youth suicide, social media platforms have received much attention from researchers. A few researches apply machine learning, or deep learning-based text classification approaches to classify social media posts containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Siqu Long , Rina Cabral , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study that aims to address these challenges by enhancing the…

Social media has emerged as a valuable resource for disaster management, revolutionizing the way emergency response and recovery efforts are conducted during natural disasters. This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mohammadsepehr Karimiziarani

Social media has become an important source for understanding mental health, providing researchers with a way to detect conditions like depression from user-generated posts. This tutorial provides practical guidance to address common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Zhanyi Ding , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Xiaorui Shen , Yunchong Liu , Yuchen Cao

The exponential growth of volume, variety and velocity of data is raising the need for investigations of automated or semi-automated ways to extract useful patterns from the data. It requires deep expert knowledge and extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Abbas Raza Ali , Marcin Budka , Bogdan Gabrys