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most citedTransformer-based Multi-task Learning for Disaster Tweet Categorisation

6 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2023

Coping with low data availability for social media crisis message categorisation

Congcong Wang

During crisis situations, social media allows people to quickly share information, including messages requesting help. This can be valuable to emergency responders, who need to cat…

cs.CL2023

STA: Self-controlled Text Augmentation for Improving Text Classifications

Congcong Wang, Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros, Steven Derby +1

Despite recent advancements in Machine Learning, many tasks still involve working in low-data regimes which can make solving natural language problems difficult. Recently, a number…

cs.CL2021

UCD-CS at TREC 2021 Incident Streams Track

Congcong Wang, David Lillis

In recent years, the task of mining important information from social media posts during crises has become a focus of research for the purposes of assisting emergency response (ES)…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Crisis Domain Adaptation Using Sequence-to-sequence Transformers

Congcong Wang, Paul Nulty, David Lillis

User-generated content (UGC) on social media can act as a key source of information for emergency responders in crisis situations. However, due to the volume concerned, computation…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Transformer-based Multi-task Learning for Disaster Tweet Categorisation

Congcong Wang, Paul Nulty, David Lillis

Social media has enabled people to circulate information in a timely fashion, thus motivating people to post messages seeking help during crisis situations. These messages can cont…

cs.CL2021

Multi-task transfer learning for finding actionable information from crisis-related messages on social media

Congcong Wang, David Lillis

The Incident streams (IS) track is a research challenge aimed at finding important information from social media during crises for emergency response purposes. More specifically, g…