Extraction and analysis of natural disaster-related VGI from social media: review, opportunities and challenges

Y Feng, X Huang, M Sester - International Journal of Geographical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The idea of 'citizen as sensors' has gradually become a reality over the past decade. Today,
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from citizens is highly involved in acquiring …

Application of social sensors in natural disasters emergency management: a review

K Shi, X Peng, H Lu, Y Zhu, Z Niu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters are public emergencies characterized by suddenness, universality, and
nonconventionality. Realizing the early warning, monitoring, and intervention of natural …

Constructing holistic spatio-temporal scene graph for video semantic role labeling

Y Zhao, H Fei, Y Cao, B Li, M Zhang, J Wei… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As one of the core video semantic understanding tasks, Video Semantic Role Labeling
(VidSRL) aims to detect the salient events from given videos, by recognizing the predict …

Moral emotions shape the virality of COVID-19 misinformation on social media

K Solovev, N Pröllochs - Proceedings of the ACM web conference 2022, 2022 - dl.acm.org
While false rumors pose a threat to the successful overcoming of the COVID-19 pandemic,
an understanding of how rumors diffuse in online social networks is–even for non-crisis …

Hierarchical and incremental structural entropy minimization for unsupervised social event detection

Y Cao, H Peng, Z Yu, SY Philip - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
As a trending approach for social event detection, graph neural network (GNN)-based
methods enable a fusion of natural language semantics and the complex social network …

Semiautomated social media analytics for sensing societal impacts due to community disruptions during disasters

C Zhang, W Yao, Y Yang, R Huang… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the societal impacts caused by community disruptions (eg, power outages
and road closures), particularly during the response stage, with timeliness and sufficient …

Crossroads, buildings and neighborhoods: A dataset for fine-grained location recognition

P Chen, H Xu, C Zhang, R Huang - … of the 2022 conference of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Abstract General domain Named Entity Recognition (NER) datasets like CoNLL-2003 mostly
annotate coarse-grained location entities such as a country or a city. But many applications …

A multi-channel hierarchical graph attention network for open event extraction

Q Wan, C Wan, K Xiao, R Hu, D Liu - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Event extraction is an essential task in natural language processing. Although extensively
studied, existing work shares issues in three aspects, including (1) the limitations of using …

Unpacking the role of volunteered geographic information in disaster management: focus on data quality

M Tavra, A Lisec, M Galešić Divić… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing occurrence of disasters worldwide has motivated researchers to
continuously evaluate potential technological advances to support disaster management …

Examining the consistency between geo-coordinates and content-mentioned locations in tweets for disaster situational awareness: A Hurricane Harvey study

AS Paradkar, C Zhang, F Yuan, A Mostafavi - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media are a rich source of situational information useful conveyed with more
immediacy conventional by mass media. The content of social media posts and the …