Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens,
researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that …

In this paper, we describe how we created two state-of-the-art SVM classifiers, one to detect
the sentiment of messages such as tweets and SMS (message-level task) and one to detect …

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 …

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

The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

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 …

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 …

In today's world, online social media plays a vital role during real world events, especially
crisis events. There are both positive and negative effects of social media coverage of …

Abstract In the United States like in many other countries throughout the globe, construction
workers are more likely to be injured on the job than workers in any other industry. This poor …