Twitter as a lifeline: human-annotated Twitter corpora for NLP of crisis-related messages

Imran, Muhammad; Mitra, Prasenjit; Castillo, Carlos

Twitter as a lifeline: human-annotated Twitter corpora for NLP of crisis-related messages

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Imran M, Mitra P, Castillo C. Twitter as a lifeline: human-annotated Twitter corpora for NLP of crisis-related messages. In: Calzolari N, Choukri K, Declerck T, Goggi S, Grobelnik M, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Moreno A, Odijk J, Piperidis S. LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation; 2016 23-28 May; Portorož, Slovenia. [Portorož]: LREC, 2016. p. 1638-43.

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Microblogging platforms such as Twitter provide active communication channels during mass convergence and emergency events such as earthquakes, typhoons. During the sudden onset of a crisis situation, affected people post useful information on Twitter that can be used for situational awareness and other humanitarian disaster response efforts, if processed timely and effectively. Processing social media information pose multiple challenges such as parsing noisy, brief and informal messages, learning information categories from the incoming stream of messages and classifying them into different classes among others. One of the basic necessities of many of these tasks is the availability of data, in particular human-annotated data. In this paper, we present human-annotated Twitter corpora collected during 19 different crises that took place between 2013 and 2015. To demonstrate the utility of the annotations, we train machine learning classifiers. Moreover, we publish first largest word2vec word embeddings trained on 52 million crisis-related tweets. To deal with tweets language issues, we present human-annotated normalized lexical resources for different lexical variations.

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Comunicació presentada a: LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, celebrada del 23 al 28 de maig de 2016 a Portorož, Eslovènia.