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Natural disasters often result in a surge of social media activity, including requests for assistance, offers of help, sentiments, and general updates. To enable humanitarian organizations to respond more efficiently, we propose a…

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The success of a disaster relief and response process is largely dependent on timely and accurate information regarding the status of the disaster, the surrounding environment, and the affected people. This information is primarily provided…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Tahora H. Nazer , Guoliang Xue , Yusheng Ji , Huan Liu

Social media plays a major role during and after major natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, large-scale fires, etc.), as people ``on the ground'' post useful information on what is actually happening. Given the large amounts of posts, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Chidubem Arachie , Manas Gaur , Sam Anzaroot , William Groves , Ke Zhang , Alejandro Jaimes

In times of crisis, identifying the essential needs is a crucial step to providing appropriate resources and services to affected entities. Social media platforms such as Twitter contain vast amount of information about the general public's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 M. Janina Sarol , Ly Dinh , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Chieh-Li Chin , Pingjing Yang , Jana Diesner

Recent developments in image classification and natural language processing, coupled with the rapid growth in social media usage, have enabled fundamental advances in detecting breaking events around the world in real-time. Emergency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Mahdi Abavisani , Liwei Wu , Shengli Hu , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

The analysis of natural disasters such as floods in a timely manner often suffers from limited data due to coarsely distributed sensors or sensor failures. At the same time, a plethora of information is buried in an abundance of images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Björn Barz , Kai Schröter , Ann-Christin Kra , Joachim Denzler

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Markus Enenkel , Sofia Martinez Saenz , Denyse S. Dookie , Lisette Braman , Nick Obradovich , Yury Kryvasheyeu

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook etc can be utilised as an important source of information during disaster events. This information can be used for disaster response and crisis management if processed accurately and quickly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Aman Priyanshu , Mudit Sinha , Shreyans Mehta

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

Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness assessments through a comparative analysis of two approaches: one…

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Social media plays a significant role in disaster management by providing valuable data about affected people, donations and help requests. Recent studies highlight the need to filter information on social media into fine-grained content…

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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…

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Methods for detecting and summarizing emergent keywords have been extensively studied since social media and microblogging activities have started to play an important role in data analysis and decision making. We present a system for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Neela Avudaiappan , Alexander Herzog , Sneha Kadam , Yuheng Du , Jason Thatcher , Ilya Safro

Due to the rapid growth of social media platforms, these tools have become essential for monitoring information during ongoing disaster events. However, extracting valuable insights requires real-time processing of vast amounts of data. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Philipp Seeberger , Steffen Freisinger , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

This paper presents novel prompting techniques to improve the performance of automatic summarization systems for scientific articles. Scientific article summarization is highly challenging due to the length and complexity of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aldan Creo , Manuel Lama , Juan C. Vidal

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Mohsen Pourvali , Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

Researchers have been investigating automated solutions for fact-checking in a variety of fronts. However, current approaches often overlook the fact that the amount of information released every day is escalating, and a large amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jing Yang , Didier Vega-Oliveros , Tais Seibt , Anderson Rocha

We introduce a novel approach for long context summarisation, highlight-guided generation, that leverages sentence-level information as a content plan to improve the traceability and faithfulness of generated summaries. Our framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xiaotang Du , Rohit Saxena , Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Pasquale Minervini , Ivan Titov

In recent years, social media has emerged as a primary channel for users to promptly share feedback and issues during disasters and emergencies, playing a key role in crisis management. While significant progress has been made in collecting…

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