Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

Inductive transfer learning has greatly impacted computer vision, but existing approaches in
NLP still require task-specific modifications and training from scratch. We propose Universal …

Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face
both an increasing frequency and an increasing intensity of natural disasters resulting from …

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the use of social media in emergency and crisis events
has greatly increased and many studies have concentrated on the use of ICT and social …

The use of social media to communicate timely information during crisis situations has
become a common practice in recent years. In particular, the one-to-many nature of Twitter …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

People start posting tweets containing texts, images, and videos as soon as a disaster hits
an area. The analysis of these disaster-related tweet texts, images, and videos can help …

Sentiment analysis has been widely researched in the domain of online review sites with the
aim of generating summarized opinions of users about different aspects of products …