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Langformers: Unified NLP Pipelines for Language Models
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera
Transformer-based language models have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, using these models often involves navigating multiple frameworks and…
"Actionable Help" in Crises: A Novel Dataset and Resource-Efficient Models for Identifying Request and Offer Social Media Posts
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera +1
During crises, social media serves as a crucial coordination tool, but the vast influx of posts--from "actionable" requests and offers to generic content like emotional support, be…
CReMa: Crisis Response through Computational Identification and Matching of Cross-Lingual Requests and Offers Shared on Social Media
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera +1
During times of crisis, social media platforms play a crucial role in facilitating communication and coordinating resources. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, communities ofte…
CrisisTransformers: Pre-trained language models and sentence encoders for crisis-related social media texts
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera
Social media platforms play an essential role in crisis communication, but analyzing crisis-related social media texts is challenging due to their informal nature. Transformer-base…