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Population-level societal events, such as civil unrest and crime, often have a significant impact on our daily life. Forecasting such events is of great importance for decision-making and resource allocation. Event prediction has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Songgaojun Deng , Yue Ning

Event detection in time series is a challenging task due to the prevalence of imbalanced datasets, rare events, and time interval-defined events. Traditional supervised deep learning methods primarily employ binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Menouar Azib , Benjamin Renard , Philippe Garnier , Vincent Génot , Nicolas André

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kai Yin , Bo Li , Chengkai Liu , Ali Mostafavi , Xia Hu

Current efforts to correctly categorize natural events from suspected explosion sources with data that is collected by ground- or space-based sensors presents historical challenges that remain unaddressed by the Event Categorization Matrix…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Scott Koermer , Joshua D. Carmichael , Brian J. Williams

Situational awareness is crucial for effective disaster management. However, obtaining information about the actual situation is usually difficult and time-consuming. While there has been some effort in terms of incorporating the affected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-11 Sander Wozniak , Michael Rossberg , Guenter Schaefer

Nowadays, Twitter has become a great source of user-generated information about events. Very often people report causal relationships between events in their tweets. Automatic detection of causality information in these events might play an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Humayun Kayesh , Md. Saiful Islam , Junhu Wang

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

The need for a disaster-related event monitoring system has arisen due to the societal and economic impact caused by the increasing number of severe disaster events. An event monitoring system should be able to extract event-related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Junbo Huang , Ricardo Usbeck

Event mentions in text correspond to real-world events of varying degrees of granularity. The task of subevent detection aims to resolve this granularity issue, recognizing the membership of multi-granular events in event complexes. Since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Haoyu Wang , Hongming Zhang , Muhao Chen , Dan Roth

Social media sources can provide crucial information in crisis situations, but discovering relevant messages is not trivial. Methods have so far focused on universal detection models for all kinds of crises or for certain crisis types (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anna Kruspe

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

Causality understanding between events is a critical natural language processing task that is helpful in many areas, including health care, business risk management and finance. On close examination, one can find a huge amount of textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Vivek Khetan , Roshni Ramnani , Mayuresh Anand , Shubhashis Sengupta , Andrew E. Fano

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

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters worldwide. Media coverage of these events may be vital to generate empathy and mobilize global populations to address the common threat posed by climate change.…

General Economics · Economics 2025-01-15 Thiemo Fetzer , Prashant Garg

The huge popularity of social media platforms like Twitter attracts a large fraction of users to share real-time information and short situational messages during disasters. A summary of these tweets is required by the government…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Piyush Kumar Garg , Roshni Chakraborty , Sourav Kumar Dandapat

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ahmed El Fekih Zguir , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran

The increasing popularity of social networks and users' tendency towards sharing their feelings, expressions, and opinions in text, visual, and audio content, have opened new opportunities and challenges in sentiment analysis. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Syed Zohaib Hassan , Kashif Ahmad , Steven Hicks , Paal Halvorsen , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Nicola Conci , Michael Riegler

Climate change results in an increased probability of extreme weather events that put societies and businesses at risk on a global scale. Therefore, near real-time mapping of natural hazards is an emerging priority for the support of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Johannes Jakubik , Michal Muszynski , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl , Thomas Brunschwiler

Online social media platforms, such as Twitter, provide valuable information during disaster events. Existing tweet disaster summarization approaches provide a summary of these events to aid government agencies, humanitarian organizations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Piyush Kumar Garg , Roshni Chakraborty , Sourav Kumar Dandapat

Decision-makers often observe the occurrence of events through a reporting process. City governments, for example, rely on resident reports to find and then resolve urban infrastructural problems such as fallen street trees, flooded…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Gabriel Agostini , Emma Pierson , Nikhil Garg