Weakly-supervised Fine-grained Event Recognition on Social Media Texts for Disaster Management

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01683v1
• Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 21:06:45 GMT
• Title: Weakly-supervised Fine-grained Event Recognition on Social Media Texts for Disaster Management
• Authors: Wenlin Yao, Cheng Zhang, Shiva Saravanan, Ruihong Huang, Ali Mostafavi
• Abstract summary: People increasingly use social media to report, seek help or share information during disasters. We present a weakly supervised approach for building high-quality classifiers that label each individual Twitter message with fine-grained event categories.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: People increasingly use social media to report emergencies, seek help or share information during disasters, which makes social networks an important tool for disaster management. To meet these time-critical needs, we present a weakly supervised approach for rapidly building high-quality classifiers that label each individual Twitter message with fine-grained event categories. Most importantly, we propose a novel method to create high-quality labeled data in a timely manner that automatically clusters tweets containing an event keyword and asks a domain expert to disambiguate event word senses and label clusters quickly. In addition, to process extremely noisy and often rather short user-generated messages, we enrich tweet representations using preceding context tweets and reply tweets in building event recognition classifiers. The evaluation on two hurricanes, Harvey and Florence, shows that using only 1-2 person-hours of human supervision, the rapidly trained weakly supervised classifiers outperform supervised classifiers trained using more than ten thousand annotated tweets created in over 50 person-hours.

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