Identifying sub-events and summarizing disaster-related information from microblogs

Koustav Rudra, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly, Prasenjit Mitra, Muhammad Imran

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Abstract

In recent times, humanitarian organizations increasingly rely on social media to search for information useful for disaster response. These organizations have varying information needs ranging from general situational awareness (i.e., to understand a bigger picture) to focused information needs e.g., about infrastructure damage, urgent needs of affected people. This research proposes a novel approach to help crisis responders fulfill their information needs at different levels of granularities. Specifically, the proposed approach presents simple algorithms to identify sub-events and generate summaries of big volume of messages around those events using an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) technique. Extensive evaluation on a large set of real world Twitter dataset shows (a). our algorithm can identify important sub-events with high recall (b). The summarization scheme shows (6 - -30%) higher accuracy of our system compared to many other state-of-the-art techniques. The simplicity of the algorithms ensures that the entire task is done in real time which is needed for practical deployment of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages265-274
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356572
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jun 2018
Event41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018 - Ann Arbor, United States
Duration: 8 Jul 201812 Jul 2018

Publication series

Name41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018

Conference

Conference41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnn Arbor
Period8/07/1812/07/18

Keywords

  • Class-based summarization
  • High-level summarization
  • Humanitarian classes
  • Situational information
  • Sub-event detection

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