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Time-critical analysis of social media streams is important for humanitarian organizations for planing rapid response during disasters. The \textit{crisis informatics} research community has developed several techniques and systems for…

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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

Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of prosodic cues, such as variations in pitch, speaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiyuan Gao , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Sarcasm is a form of humor where expressions convey meanings opposite to their literal interpretations. Classifying and generating sarcasm using large language models is vital for interpreting human communication. Sarcasm poses challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lang Xiong , Raina Gao , Alyssa Jeong , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

We study collective attention paid towards hurricanes through the lens of $n$-grams on Twitter, a social media platform with global reach. Using hurricane name mentions as a proxy for awareness, we find that the exogenous temporal dynamics…

Sarcasm detection is important for several NLP tasks such as sentiment identification in product reviews, user feedback, and online forums. It is a challenging task requiring a deep understanding of language, context, and world knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Posting help-seeking requests on social media has been broadly adopted by victims during natural disasters to look for urgent rescue and supplies. The help-seeking requests need to get sufficient public attention and be promptly routed to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Changyang He , Yue Deng , Wenjie Yang , Bo Li

Humanitarian disasters have been on the rise in recent years due to the effects of climate change and socio-political situations such as the refugee crisis. Technology can be used to best mobilize resources such as food and water in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Mayank Kejriwal , Peilin Zhou

Timely classification of humanitarian information from social media is critical for effective disaster response. However, deploying large language models (LLMs) for this task faces challenges in resource-constrained emergency settings. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Han Jinzhen , Kim Jisung , Yang Jong Soo , Yun Hong Sik

The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at scale for the first time. However, their diversity has made it difficult to construct a high-quality corpus of sarcasm in dialogue. Here, we describe the process of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Shereen Oraby , Vrindavan Harrison , Lena Reed , Ernesto Hernandez , Ellen Riloff , Marilyn Walker

During recent years the online social networks (in particular Twitter) have become an important alternative information channel to traditional media during natural disasters, but the amount and diversity of messages poses the challenge of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Alfredo Cobo , Denis Parra , Jaime Navón

Tweet clustering for event detection is a powerful modern method to automate the real-time detection of events. In this work we present a new tweet clustering approach, using a probabilistic approach to incorporate temporal information. By…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Peter Mathews , Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Giang T. Nguyen , Nigel G. Bean

Understanding how attitudes towards the Climate Emergency vary can hold the key to driving policy changes for effective action to mitigate climate related risk. The Oil and Gas industry account for a significant proportion of global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Arman Sarjou

Sarcasm recognition is challenging because it needs an understanding of the true intention, which is opposite to or different from the literal meaning of the words. Prior work has addressed this challenge by developing a series of methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ojas Nimase , Sanghyun Hong

The use of microblogging platforms such as Twitter during crises has become widespread. More importantly, information disseminated by affected people contains useful information like reports of missing and found people, requests for urgent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Koustav Rudra , Siddhartha Banerjee , Niloy Ganguly , Pawan Goyal , Muhammad Imran , Prasenjit Mitra

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

The widespread use of microblogging platforms like X (formerly Twitter) during disasters provides real-time information to governments and response authorities. However, the data from these platforms is often noisy, requiring automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Muhammad Imran , Abdul Wahab Ziaullah , Kai Chen , Ferda Ofli

Past work in computational sarcasm deals primarily with sarcasm detection. In this paper, we introduce a novel, related problem: sarcasm target identification i.e., extracting the target of ridicule in a sarcastic sentence). We present an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Aditya Joshi , Pranav Goel , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

Online social networks are increasingly being utilized for collective sense making and information processing in disasters. However, the underlying mechanisms that shape the dynamics of collective intelligence in online social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chao Fan , Fangsheng Wu , Ali Mostafavi

Social media datasets make it possible to rapidly quantify collective attention to emerging topics and breaking news, such as crisis events. Collective attention is typically measured by aggregate counts, such as the number of posts that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Ian Stewart , Diyi Yang , Jacob Eisenstein