Situation Awareness (SA) is a process of sensing, understanding and predicting the
environment and is an important component in complex systems. The reception of …

Social media has emerged as a major hub for information dissemination during disasters. It
serves as a central repository for massive real-time updates about disasters, facilitating the …

During natural disasters, people often use social media platforms, such as Twitter, to post
information about casualties and damage produced by disasters. This information can help …

The analysis of news dissemination is of utmost importance since the credibility of
information and the identification of disinformation and misinformation affect society as a …

In times of emergency, crisis response agencies need to quickly and accurately assess the
situation on the ground in order to deploy relevant services and resources. However …

Current research concentrates on studying discussions on social media related to structural
failures to improve disaster response strategies. However, detecting social web posts …

Social media images, curated or casual, have become a crucial component of
communicating situational information and emotions during health crises. Despite its …

The interplay between the image and comment on a social media post is one of high
importance for understanding its overall message. Recent strides in multimodal embedding …

Multimodal tasks require learning a joint representation of the constituent modalities of data.
Contrastive learning learns a joint representation by using a contrastive loss. For example …

Recent studies show that the use of multimodality can effectively enhance the understanding
of social media content. The relations between texts and images become an important basis …