Social media in disaster communication

L Palen, AL Hughes - Handbook of disaster research, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Using AI and social media multimodal content for disaster response and management: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions

M Imran, F Ofli, D Caragea, A Torralba - Information Processing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract People increasingly use Social Media (SM) platforms such as Twitter and Facebook
during disasters and emergencies to post situational updates including reports of injured or …

Analysis of social media data using multimodal deep learning for disaster response

F Ofli, F Alam, M Imran - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11838, 2020 - arxiv.org
Multimedia content in social media platforms provides significant information during disaster
events. The types of information shared include reports of injured or deceased people …

Leveraging multimodal social media data for rapid disaster damage assessment

H Hao, Y Wang - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
During disaster response and recovery stages, stakeholders including governmental
agencies collect disaster's impact information to inform disaster relief, resource allocation …

Descriptive and visual summaries of disaster events using artificial intelligence techniques: case studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

F Alam, F Ofli, M Imran - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters
and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on …

A twitter tale of three hurricanes: Harvey, irma, and maria

F Alam, F Ofli, M Imran, M Aupetit - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05144, 2018 - arxiv.org
People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters
and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on …

Assessing post-disaster recovery using sentiment analysis: The case of L'Aquila, Italy

D Contreras, S Wilkinson, N Balan… - Earthquake …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Memorial days of disasters represent an opportunity to evaluate the progress of recovery.
This article uses sentiment analysis (SA) to assess post-disaster recovery on the 10th …

Hazardous weather prediction and communication in the modern information environment

RE Morss, JL Demuth, H Lazrus… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
During the last few decades, scientific capabilities for understanding and predicting weather
and climate risks have advanced rapidly. At the same time, technological advances, such as …

Localizing and quantifying damage in social media images

X Li, D Caragea, H Zhang… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional post-disaster assessment of damage heavily relies on expensive GIS data,
especially remote sensing image data. In recent years, social media has become a rich …

[PDF][PDF] Identifying disaster damage images using a domain adaptation approach

X Li, D Caragea, C Caragea, M Imran… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Approaches for effectively filtering useful situational awareness information posted by
eyewitnesses of disasters, in real time, are greatly needed. While many studies have …