From plan to practice: Interorganizational crisis response networks from governmental guidelines and real‐world collaborations during hurricane events

L Dinh, P Yang, J Diesner - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crisis response involves extensive planning and coordination within and across a multitude
of agencies and organisations. This study explores how on‐the‐ground crisis response …

[PDF][PDF] Natural language processing for policymaking

Z Jin, R Mihalcea - Handbook of Computational Social Science for …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Abstract Language is the medium for many political activities, from campaigns to news
reports. Natural language processing (NLP) uses computational tools to parse text into key …

Variation in situational awareness information due to selection of data source, summarization method, and method implementation

MJ Sarol, L Dinh, J Diesner - … of the international aaai conference on …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
The increasing amount of information available about crisis events calls for tools that help
people to efficiently and reliably sift through and summarize this information. When using …

Information Extraction from Social Media: A Hands-On Tutorial on Tasks, Data, and Open Source Tools

S Mishra, R Rezapour, J Diesner - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Information extraction (IE) is a common sub-area of natural language processing that
focuses on identifying structured data from unstructured data. One application domain of IE …

Social Media and Crisis Informatics Research in LIS

L Dinh, L Hong, C Dumas, B Patin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crisis informatics is centrally situated within the realms of LIS research and practice, given
the focus on the interconnection between information, people, and technology during …

Detecting needs of people in a crisis using Transformer-based question answering techniques

E Karam, W Hussein, TF Gharib - 2021 Tenth International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The usage of social media in everyday life has become a need for keeping up with the news,
as well as for making queries and requesting assistance. Following a significant event like a …

Developing Responsible and Reliable Entity and Relation Extraction Methods: A Human-in-the-Loop Perspective

P Yang - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
In this digital age, information extraction is still a fundamental task as the basis of more
complex and user-oriented tasks, such as chatbots and search engines. Although efforts …

Advances to network analysis theories and methods for the understanding of formal and emergent structures in interpersonal, corporate/organizational, and hazards …

L Dinh - 2022 - ideals.illinois.edu
Network analysis provides valuable theoretical and methodological approaches to
investigate complex systems of social-technical relations. Network analysis has been …

Question Answering techniques for detecting needs of people in crisis

E Karam, W Hussein, TF Gharib - International Journal of …, 2021 - ijicis.journals.ekb.eg
The use of social networks has become one of the basics of daily life to follow the news, and
also in the case of inquiries and requesting assistance. In case of a crisis, information about …