Title
Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenario.
Abstract
During mass convergence events such as natural disasters, microblogging platforms like Twitter are widely used by affected people to post situational awareness messages. These crisis-related messages disperse among multiple categories like infrastructure damage, information about missing, injured, and dead people etc. The challenge here is to extract important situational updates from these messages, assign them appropriate informational categories, and finally summarize big trove of information in each category. In this paper, we propose a novel framework which first assigns tweets into different situational classes and then summarize those tweets. In the summarization phase, we propose a two stage summarization framework which first extracts a set of important tweets from the whole set of information through an Integer-linear programming (ILP) based optimization technique and then follows a word graph and content word based abstractive summarization technique to produce the final summary. Our method is time and memory efficient and outperforms the baseline in terms of quality, coverage of events, locations et al., effectiveness, and utility in disaster scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2914586.2914600
HT
Keywords
Field
DocType
Disaster events, Twitter, situational information, classification, summarization
Automatic summarization,Multi-document summarization,World Wide Web,Social media,Content word,Computer science,Situation awareness,Microblogging,Natural disaster,Situational ethics,Word graph
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.62
23
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Koustav Rudra1789.08
Siddhartha Banerjee2525.00
Niloy Ganguly31306121.03
Pawan Goyal46413.01
Muhammad Imran558137.91
Prasenjit Mitra62439167.89