@inproceedings{d804f6d3957448409431831658227773,
title = "A twitter tale of three hurricanes: Harvey, Irma, and Maria",
abstract = "People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on Twitter for several disaster response tasks. However, making sense of social media data is a challenging task due to several reasons such as limitations of available tools to analyze high-volume and high-velocity data streams. This work presents an extensive multidimensional analysis of textual and multimedia content from millions of tweets shared on Twitter during the three disaster events. Specifically, we employ various Artificial Intelligence techniques from Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision fields, which exploit di erent machine learning algorithms to process the data generated during the disaster events. Our study reveals the distributions of various types of useful information that can inform crisis managers and responders as well as facilitate the development of future automated systems for disaster management.",
keywords = "Disaster management, Image processing, Named-entity recognition, Social media, Text classification, Topic modeling",
author = "Firoj Alam and Ferda Ofli and Muhammad Imran and Michael Aupetit",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM. All rights reserved.; 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2018 ; Conference date: 20-05-2018 Through 23-05-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference",
publisher = "Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM",
pages = "553--572",
editor = "Brian Tomaszewski and Kees Boersma",
booktitle = "Conference Proceedings - 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2018",
address = "Spain",
}