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Tweet hashtags have the potential to improve the search for information during disaster events. However, there is a large number of disaster-related tweets that do not have any user-provided hashtags. Moreover, only a small number of tweets…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea

The increasing use of social networks generates enormous amounts of data that can be used for many types of analysis. Some of these data have temporal and geographical information, which can be used for comprehensive examination. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Augusto Dias Pereira dos Santos , Leandro Krug Wives , Luis Otavio Alvares

This paper presents a novel approach to extract scientifically valuable information about Earth's physical phenomena from unconventional sources, such as multi-modal social media posts. Employing a state-of-the-art large language model…

The first objective towards the effective use of microblogging services such as Twitter for situational awareness during the emerging disasters is discovery of the disaster-related postings. Given the wide range of possible disasters, using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Shanshan Zhang , Slobodan Vucetic

When a damaging earthquake occurs, immediate information about casualties is critical for time-sensitive decision-making by emergency response and aid agencies in the first hours and days. Systems such as Prompt Assessment of Global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Chenguang Wang , Davis Engler , Xuechun Li , James Hou , David J. Wald , Kishor Jaiswal , Susu Xu

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

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

With the development of the Internet, social media has become an important channel for posting disaster-related information. Analyzing attitudes hidden in these texts, known as sentiment analysis, is crucial for the government or relief…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Lingyu Meng , Zhijie Sasha Dong

This paper presents an online system that leverages social media data in real time to identify landslide-related information automatically using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques. The designed system can (i) reduce the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Ferda Ofli , Umair Qazi , Muhammad Imran , Julien Roch , Catherine Pennington , Vanessa Banks , Remy Bossu

Streaming social media provides a real-time glimpse of extreme weather impacts. However, the volume of streaming data makes mining information a challenge for emergency managers, policy makers, and disciplinary scientists. Here we explore…

Social media has quickly grown into an essential tool for people to communicate and express their needs during crisis events. Prior work in analyzing social media data for crisis management has focused primarily on automatically identifying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Swati Padhee , Tanay Kumar Saha , 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

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

This study examines machine learning methods used in crisis management. Analyzing detected patterns from a crisis involves the collection and evaluation of historical or near-real-time datasets through automated means. This paper utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Izunna Okpala , Shane Halse , Jess Kropczynski

Disaster analysis in social media content is one of the interesting research domains having abundance of data. However, there is a lack of labeled data that can be used to train machine learning models for disaster analysis applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Naina Said , Kashif Ahmad , Nicola Conci , Ala Al-Fuqaha

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henry Peng Zou , Yue Zhou , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea

People increasingly use social media to report emergencies, seek help or share information during disasters, which makes social networks an important tool for disaster management. To meet these time-critical needs, we present a weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wenlin Yao , Cheng Zhang , Shiva Saravanan , Ruihong Huang , Ali Mostafavi

During a disaster event, two types of information that are especially useful for coordinating relief operations are needs and availabilities of resources (e.g., food, water, medicines) in the affected region. Information posted on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ritam Dutt , Moumita Basu , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Social media has become a critical source of situational awareness during disasters, providing real-time insights into evolving impacts and emerging needs. To support crisis response at scale, recent work has increasingly leveraged large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Timothy Douglas , Roben Delos Reyes , Asanobu Kitamoto

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