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QuanReview: Offline, Auditable Reconciliation of Human and LLM Span Annotations
Matteo Musacchio, Juan Cruz Giner Pulero, Isabel Castañeda +4
Structured span annotations, such as quantities with their units, uncertainty modifiers, and event classes, are expensive to create and hard to keep trustworthy once language model…
Verifiable Disaster Storylines and Causal Knowledge Graphs: A Citation-Grounded Pipeline from Heterogeneous Humanitarian Sources
Ivan Decostanzi, Michele Ronco, Sergio Consoli +8
Effective humanitarian response depends on the rapid synthesis of heterogeneous, high-volume information sources - a task that routinely exceeds human analytical capacity in the cr…
Context-Conditioned Generative Models Enable Subnational Refinement of Sparse Humanitarian Surveys
Federica Sibilla, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Duccio Piovani +4
Data scarcity limits inference in many scientific and policy domains. Survey data are essential for decision-making, but sparse samples often fail to capture fine spatial granulari…
A Large-Language-Model Framework for Automated Humanitarian Situation Reporting
Ivan Decostanzi, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Timely and accurate situational reports are essential for humanitarian decision-making, yet current workflows remain largely manual, resource intensive, and inconsistent. We presen…
Non-traditional data in pandemic preparedness and response: identifying and addressing first and last-mile challenges
Mattia Mazzoli, Irma Varela-Lasheras, Sonia Namorado +10
The pandemic served as an important test case of complementing traditional public health data with non-traditional data (NTD) such as mobility traces, social media activity, and we…
Continental-scale assessment of spatial food market accessibility in Africa using open geospatial data
Robert Benassai-Dalmau, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Rossano Schifanella +3
Food market accessibility is a critical yet underexplored dimension of food systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In this paper, we present a continent-wide as…
Behavioral response to mobile phone evacuation alerts
Erick Elejalde, Timur Naushirvanov, Kyriaki Kalimeri +4
This study examines behavioral responses to mobile phone evacuation alerts during the February 2024 wildfires in Valparaíso, Chile. Using anonymized mobile network data from 580,00…
Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
Jacopo D'Ignazi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiró
This study uses sentiment analysis and the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) to characterise news content in social media and examine its association with user engagement. We employ N…
The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit
Paolo Cornale, Michele Tizzani, Fabio Ciulla +4
Collective and individual action necessary to address climate change hinges on the public's understanding of the relevant scientific findings. In this study, we examine the use of…
Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires in Chile
Timur Naushirvanov, Erick Elejalde, Kyriaki Kalimeri +3
Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of wildfires, leading to increased evacuation events that disrupt human mobility and socioeconomic structures. These disrupti…
Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia
Jacopo D'Ignazi, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova +4
Over the last few years, verifying the credibility of information sources has become a fundamental need to combat disinformation. Here, we present a language-agnostic model designe…
Quantitative Information Extraction from Humanitarian Documents
Daniele Liberatore, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Derya Sever +1
Humanitarian action is accompanied by a mass of reports, summaries, news, and other documents. To guide its activities, important information must be quickly extracted from such fr…
Automatic Detection of Moral Values in Music Lyrics
Vjosa Preniqi, Iacopo Ghinassi, Julia Ive +2
Moral values play a fundamental role in how we evaluate information, make decisions, and form judgements around important social issues. The possibility to extract morality rapidly…
LML: A Novel Lexicon for the Moral Foundation of Liberty
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Sergio Consoli +1
The moral value of liberty is a central concept in our inference system when it comes to taking a stance towards controversial social issues such as vaccine hesitancy, climate chan…
Resilience of mobility network to dynamic population response across COVID-19 interventions: evidences from Chile
Pasquale Casaburi, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Nicolò Gozzi +6
The COVID19 pandemic highlighted the importance of non-traditional data sources, such as mobile phone data, to inform effective public health interventions and monitor adherence to…
MoralBERT: A Fine-Tuned Language Model for Capturing Moral Values in Social Discussions
Vjosa Preniqi, Iacopo Ghinassi, Julia Ive +2
Moral values play a fundamental role in how we evaluate information, make decisions, and form judgements around important social issues. Controversial topics, including vaccination…
Beyond the Headlines: Understanding Sentiments and Morals Impacting Female Employment in Spain
Oscar Araque, Luca Barbaglia, Francesco Berlingieri +5
After decades of improvements in the employment conditions of females in Spain, this process came to a sudden stop with the Great Spanish Recession of 2008. In this contribution, w…
Leave no Place Behind: Improved Geolocation in Humanitarian Documents
Enrico M. Belliardo, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova
Geographical location is a crucial element of humanitarian response, outlining vulnerable populations, ongoing events, and available resources. Latest developments in Natural Langu…
Political Context of the European Vaccine Debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri +5
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears grew that making vaccination a political (instead of public health) issue may impact the efficacy of this life-saving intervention,…
From Ukraine to the World: Using LinkedIn Data to Monitor Professional Migration from Ukraine
Margherita Bertè, Daniela Paolotti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Highly skilled professionals' forced migration from Ukraine was triggered by the conflict in Ukraine in 2014 and amplified by the Russian invasion in 2022. Here, we utilize LinkedI…
Monitoring Gender Gaps via LinkedIn Advertising Estimates: the case study of Italy
Margherita Bertè, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
Women remain underrepresented in the labour market. Although significant advancements are being made to increase female participation in the workforce, the gender gap is still far…
Global misinformation spillovers in the online vaccination debate before and during COVID-19
Jacopo Lenti, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson +4
Anti-vaccination views pervade online social media, fueling distrust in scientific expertise and increasing vaccine-hesitant individuals. While previous studies focused on specific…
LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals' concerns and viewpoints and preventi…
"More Than Words": Linking Music Preferences and Moral Values Through Lyrics
Vjosa Preniqi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
This study explores the association between music preferences and moral values by applying text analysis techniques to lyrics. Harvesting data from a Facebook-hosted application, w…