Text Analytics for Resilience-Enabled Extreme Events Reconnaissance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13087v2
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:07:20 GMT
• Title: Text Analytics for Resilience-Enabled Extreme Events Reconnaissance
• Authors: Alicia Y. Tsai and Selim Gunay and Minjune Hwang and Pengyuan Zhai and Chenglong Li and Laurent El Ghaoui and Khalid M. Mosalam
• Abstract summary: The study focuses on (1) automated data (news and social media) collection hosted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center server, (2) automatic generation of reconnaissance reports, and (3) use of social media to extract post-hazard information such as the recovery time.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Post-hazard reconnaissance for natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes) is important for understanding the performance of the built environment, speeding up the recovery, enhancing resilience and making informed decisions related to current and future hazards. Natural language processing (NLP) is used in this study for the purposes of increasing the accuracy and efficiency of natural hazard reconnaissance through automation. The study particularly focuses on (1) automated data (news and social media) collection hosted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center server, (2) automatic generation of reconnaissance reports, and (3) use of social media to extract post-hazard information such as the recovery time. Obtained results are encouraging for further development and wider usage of various NLP methods in natural hazard reconnaissance.

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