GazPNE2: A general place name extractor for microblogs fusing gazetteers and pretrained transformer models

X Hu, Z Zhou, Y Sun, J Kersten, F Klan… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of “human as sensors” defines a new sensing model, in which humans act as
sensors by contributing their observations, perceptions, and sensations. This is crucial for …

GazPNE: annotation-free deep learning for place name extraction from microblogs leveraging gazetteer and synthetic data by rules

X Hu, HS Al-Olimat, J Kersten… - International Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Extracting precise location information from microblogs is a crucial task in many
applications, particularly in disaster response, revealing where damages are, where people …

Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages

Y Hu, G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, N Lao… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important
location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many …

Geo-spatial text-mining from Twitter–a feature space analysis with a view toward building classification in urban regions

M Häberle, M Werner, XX Zhu - European journal of remote …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
By the year 2050, it is expected that about 68% of global population will live in cities. To
understand the emerging changes in urban structures, new data sources like social media …

Face off: Travel Habits, Road Conditions and Traffic City Characteristics Bared Using Twitter

A Agarwal, D Toshniwal - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adequacy of traditional transport related issues detection is often limited by physical
sparse sensor coverage and reporting incident/issues to the emergency response system is …

Location name extraction from targeted text streams using gazetteer-based statistical language models

HS Al-Olimat, K Thirunarayan, V Shalin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Extracting location names from informal and unstructured social media data requires the
identification of referent boundaries and partitioning compound names. Variability …

An approximate model for event detection from twitter data

A Dhiman, D Toshniwal - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The abundance and real-time availability of Twitter data have proved beneficial in detecting
events in various domains such as emergency situations, crime detection, public health …

Microblog dimensionality reduction—a deep learning approach

L Xu, C Jiang, Y Ren, HH Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploring potentially useful information from huge amount of textual data produced by
microblogging services has attracted much attention in recent years. An important …

How do people describe locations during a natural disaster: an analysis of tweets from Hurricane Harvey

Y Hu, J Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12914, 2020 - arxiv.org
Social media platforms, such as Twitter, have been increasingly used by people during
natural disasters to share information and request for help. Hurricane Harvey was a category …

VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT

B Zhou, L Zou, A Mostafavi, B Lin, M Yang… - … Environment and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media platforms are playing increasingly critical roles in disaster response and
rescue operations. During emergencies, users can post rescue requests along with their …