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Social media are more than just a one-way communication channel. Data can be collected, analyzed and contextualized to support disaster risk management. However, disaster management agencies typically use such added-value information to…

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Earthquakes have a deep impact on wide areas, and emergency rescue operations may benefit from social media information about the scope and extent of the disaster. Therefore, this work presents a text miningbased approach to collect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zhe Zheng , Hong-Zheng Shi , Yu-Cheng Zhou , Xin-Zheng Lu , Jia-Rui Lin

Disaster prediction is one of the most critical tasks towards disaster surveillance and preparedness. Existing technologies employ different machine learning approaches to predict incoming disasters from historical environmental data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hamada M. Zahera , Mohamed Ahmed Sherif , Axel Ngonga

Twitter is recently being used during crises to communicate with officials and provide rescue and relief operation in real time. The geographical location information of the event, as well as users, are vitally important in such scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Abhinav Kumar , Jyoti Prakash Singh

Social networks can serve as a valuable communication channel for calls for help, offering assistance, and coordinating rescue activities in disaster. Social networks such as Twitter allow users to continuously update relevant information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Long Nguyen , Zhou Yang , Jia Li , Guofeng Cao , Fang Jin

The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. This is true, for example, in emergency management and decision-making support, where…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Carlo Bono , Barbara Pernici

Natural disasters not only cause large-scale physical destruction, but also cascading social consequences that are difficult to quantify with traditional surveys and reports. Social media platforms offer an alternative perspective that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ruichen Yao , Tejna Dasari , Xuanyu Meng , Elliot Cao , Zelin Li , Yifan Liu , Yaokun Liu , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

Large-scale disasters can often result in catastrophic consequences on people and infrastructure. Situation awareness about such disaster impacts generated by authoritative data from in-situ sensors, remote sensing imagery, and/or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sameeah Noreen Hameed , Surangika Ranathunga , Raj Prasanna , Kristin Stock , Christopher B. Jones

Natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. Early warning, humanitarian response and recovery mechanisms can be improved by using big data sources. Measuring the different dimensions of the impact of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-25 David Pastor-Escuredo , Yolanda Torres , Maria Martinez , Pedro J. Zufiria

The Earthquake Network research project implements a crowdsourced earthquake early warning system based on smartphones. Smartphones, which are made available by the global population, exploit the Internet connection to report a signal to a…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-29 F. Finazzi , A. Fassò

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

Social media has become an essential channel for posting disaster-related information, which provide governments and relief agencies real-time data for better disaster management. However, research in this field has not received sufficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Zhijie Sasha Dong , Lingyu Meng , Lauren Christenson , Lawrence Fulton

Efficient simulation is essential for enhancing proactive preparedness for sudden-onset disasters such as earthquakes. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) as world models show promise in simulating complex scenarios. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lingyao Li , Dawei Li , Zhenhui Ou , Xiaoran Xu , Jingxiao Liu , Zihui Ma , Runlong Yu , Min Deng

Disaster Management is one of the most promising research areas because of its significant economic, environmental and social repercussions. This research focuses on analyzing different types of data (pre and post satellite images and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Sukeerthi Mandyam , Shanmuga Priya MG , Shalini Suresh , Kavitha Srinivasan

It is a challenging and complex task to acquire information from different regions of a disaster-affected area in a timely fashion. The extensive spread and reach of social media and networks allow people to share information in real-time.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Md. Yasin Kabir , Sanjay Madria

Due to their often unexpected nature, natural and man-made disasters are difficult to monitor and detect for journalists and disaster management response teams. Journalists are increasingly relying on signals from social media to detect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Armineh Nourbakhsh , Quanzhi Li , Xiaomo Liu , Sameena Shah

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

Earthquake monitoring is necessary to promptly identify the affected areas, the severity of the events, and, finally, to estimate damages and plan the actions needed for the restoration process. The use of seismic stations to monitor the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Paolo Garza

Timely and spatially resolved disaster impact assessment is essential for effective emergency response. However, automated methods typically struggle with temporal asynchrony. Real-time human reports capture peak hazard conditions while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yiming Xiao , Kai Yin , Ali Mostafavi

While keyphrase extraction has received considerable attention in recent years, relatively few studies exist on extracting keyphrases from social media platforms such as Twitter, and even fewer for extracting disaster-related keyphrases…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea