10 papers
Affective Flow Language Model for Emotional Support Conversation
Chenghui Zou, Ning Wang, Tiesunlong Shen +5
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to emotional support conversation (ESC). However, complex multi-turn support remains challenging.This is because existing alig…
Property-Level Flood Risk Assessment Using AI-Enabled Street-View Lowest Floor Elevation Extraction and ML Imputation Across Texas
Xiangpeng Li, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Sam D Brody +1
This paper argues that AI-enabled analysis of street-view imagery, complemented by performance-gated machine-learning imputation, provides a viable pathway for generating building-…
DisastQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering in Disaster Management
Zhitong Chen, Kai Yin, Xiangjue Dong +7
Accurate question answering (QA) in disaster management requires reasoning over uncertain and conflicting information, a setting poorly captured by existing benchmarks built on cle…
A Parametric Framework for Anticipatory Flashflood Warning: Integrating Landscape Vulnerability with Precipitation Forecasts
Xiangpeng Li, Junwei Ma, Samuel D Brody +1
Flash flood warnings are largely reactive, providing limited advance notice for evacuation planning and resource prepositioning. This study presents and validates an anticipatory,…
Quantifying Functional Criticality of Lifelines Through Mobility-Derived Population-Facility Dependence for Human-Centered Resilience
Junwei Ma, Bo Li, Xiangpeng Li +2
Lifeline infrastructure underpins the continuity of daily life, yet conventional criticality assessments remain largely asset-centric, inferring importance from physical capacity o…
Decoupling Urban Food Accessibility Resilience during Disasters through Time-Series Analysis of Human Mobility and Power Outages
Junwei Ma, Bo Li, Xiangpeng Li +1
Disaster-induced power outages create cascading disruptions across urban lifelines, yet the timed coupling between grid failure and essential service access remains poorly quantifi…