Twitter is a useful resource to analyze peoples' opinions on various topics. Often these
topics are correlated or associated with locations from where these Tweet posts are made …

Humanitarian and geopolitical crises (such as COVID-19) are frequently extra-national in
scope. Technology, including applications of natural language processing and machine …

In the past decade, the rise in social media has led to the development of a vast number of
social media services and applications. Disaster management represents one of such …

The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Incident Streams track is a new initiative that aims to
mature social media-based emergency response technology. This initiative advances the …

In recent years, there is a growing interest in using social media to understand social
phenomena. Researchers have demonstrated many important applications of using online …

Social media is a valuable platform for sharing real-time perspectives and insights,
particularly during dynamic events. Extracting relevant information from social media during …

The field of urban spatial-temporal prediction is advancing rapidly with the development of
deep learning techniques and the availability of large-scale datasets. However, challenges …

Timely and high-resolution estimates of the home locations of a sufficiently large subset of
the population are critical for applications such as disaster response and public health …

Public and humanitarian organizations monitor social media to extract useful information
during emergencies. In this paper, we propose a new method for identifying situation …

Social media (eg, Twitter and Facebook) can be regarded as vital sources of information
during disasters to improve situational awareness (SA) and disaster management since they …