Event-Related Bias Removal for Real-time Disaster Events

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00681v1
• Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 02:03:07 GMT
• Title: Event-Related Bias Removal for Real-time Disaster Events
• Authors: Evangelia Spiliopoulou and Salvador Medina Maza and Eduard Hovy and Alexander Hauptmann
• Abstract summary: Social media has become an important tool to share information about crisis events such as natural disasters and mass attacks. Detecting actionable posts that contain useful information requires rapid analysis of huge volume of data in real-time. We train an adversarial neural model to remove latent event-specific biases and improve the performance on tweet importance classification.
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• Abstract: Social media has become an important tool to share information about crisis events such as natural disasters and mass attacks. Detecting actionable posts that contain useful information requires rapid analysis of huge volume of data in real-time. This poses a complex problem due to the large amount of posts that do not contain any actionable information. Furthermore, the classification of information in real-time systems requires training on out-of-domain data, as we do not have any data from a new emerging crisis. Prior work focuses on models pre-trained on similar event types. However, those models capture unnecessary event-specific biases, like the location of the event, which affect the generalizability and performance of the classifiers on new unseen data from an emerging new event. In our work, we train an adversarial neural model to remove latent event-specific biases and improve the performance on tweet importance classification.

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