5 papers
LLM-based uncertainty assessment of social media situational signals for crisis reporting
Timothy Douglas, Roben Delos Reyes, Asanobu Kitamoto
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 respon…
Design and evaluation of an agentic workflow for crisis-related synthetic tweet datasets
Roben Delos Reyes, Timothy Douglas, Asanobu Kitamoto
Twitter (now X) has become an important source of social media data for situational awareness during crises. Crisis informatics research has widely used tweets from Twitter to deve…
Kokatsuji: A Visualization Approach for Typographic Forensics of Early Japanese Movable Type
Ignacio Perez-Messina, Asanobu Kitamoto
We present a visualization system designed to support typographic forensics in the study of Kokatsuji, the short-lived tradition of Japanese movable wooden type printing. Building…
Training Kindai OCR with parallel textline images and self-attention feature distance-based loss
Anh Le, Asanobu Kitamoto
Kindai documents, written in modern Japanese from the late 19th to early 20th century, hold significant historical value for researchers studying societal structures, daily life, a…
Machine Learning for the Digital Typhoon Dataset: Extensions to Multiple Basins and New Developments in Representations and Tasks
Asanobu Kitamoto, Erwan Dzik, Gaspar Faure
This paper presents the Digital Typhoon Dataset V2, a new version of the longest typhoon satellite image dataset for 40+ years aimed at benchmarking machine learning models for lon…