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Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages
Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, Carlos Castillo
Microblogging platforms such as Twitter provide active communication channels during mass convergence and emergency events such as earthquakes, typhoons. During the sudden onset of…
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Cross-Language Domain Adaptation for Classifying Crisis-Related Short Messages
Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, Jaideep Srivastava
Rapid crisis response requires real-time analysis of messages. After a disaster happens, volunteers attempt to classify tweets to determine needs, e.g., supplies, infrastructure da…