Crisis Informatics

NLP and multimodal learning for crisis-related social media.

This work applies natural language processing, data augmentation, and multimodal classification to social media data from crisis events, including regional COVID-19 contexts and crisis-related content classification.

Related publications: (Sharma & Buntain, 2021), (Sharma & Buntain, 2020)

References

2021

  1. An Evaluation of Twitter Datasets from Non-Pandemic Crises Applied to Regional COVID-19 Contexts
    Shivam Sharma and C. Buntain
    In ISCRAM, 2021
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2020

  1. Improving Classification of Crisis-Related Social Media Content via Text Augmentation and Image Analysis
    Shivam Sharma and C. Buntain
    In TREC-IS, 2020
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