Research Talks

• This work has been presented at the 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) in Pennsylvania, USA. The work describes AIDR platform, in particular how to address challenges and issues when human and machine computation work together.

• The following work was presented at the 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) in Baden-Baden, Germany. This presentation describes our work which shows the importance of microblogging websites such as Twitter, Facebook and the huge number of informative contents that people post over. We believe that this information can contribute to situational awareness at the time of disasters. Specifically, the work shows the classification, and information extractions of those valuable, actionable informative messages that people post during emergencies.

• The following work was presented at the 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISRAM) in Baden-Baden, Germany. This work presentes Tweet4act system, which is used to detect and classify crisis-related messages communicated over a microblogging platform. Our system relies on extracting content features from each message. These features and the use of an incident-specific dictionary allow us to determine the period type of an incident that each message belongs to.