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Time-critical geolocation for social good
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Springer
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Twitter has become an instrumental source of news in emergencies where efficient access, dissemination of information, and immediate reactions are critical. Nevertheless, due to several challenges, the current fully-automated ...
Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations
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Springer
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Query expansion (QE) using pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) is one of the approaches that has been shown to be effective for improving microblog retrieval. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three different ...
When a disaster happens, we are ready: Location mention recognition from crisis tweets
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article Review)
Geolocation information is important for humanitarian organizations to gain situational awareness and deliver timely aid during disasters. Towards addressing the problem of recognizing locations, i.e., Location Mention ...
IDRISI-RE: A generalizable dataset with benchmarks for location mention recognition on disaster tweets
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
While utilizing Twitter data for crisis management is of interest to different response authorities, a critical challenge that hinders the utilization of such data is the scarcity of automated tools that extract geolocation ...