Paper Info
Title
Disaster damage assessment from the tweets using the combination of statistical features and informative words
Abstract
Nowadays, Twitter has become more popular among the users for communicating the information, especially during disaster. Identifying tweets related to the target event during disaster is a challenging task. Many prior studies discussed situational and non-situational information related to disaster. The detection of tweets related to damage assessment is a very difficult task in social media because it is a subset of situational information. One of the following drawbacks has been present in the existing damage assessment works: (1) focused only on infrastructure damage but does not include human damage in the assessment, (2) focused only on social media image data for damage assessment and (3) focused only on regional language tweets. To overcome these issues, Stacking-based Ensemble using Statistical features and Informative Words (SESIW) is proposed for detecting the tweets related to damage assessment. It uses proposed features, namely frequency of hashtags, user mentions, wh-words, URLs, count of numerals and informative words. Informative words are mined using term frequency and inverse document frequency technique. The SESIW method is tested on different Twitter disaster datasets, and it outperforms the baseline SVM with Bag-of-Words model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s13278-019-0579-5
Social Network Analysis and Mining
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Ensemble, Disaster, Damage, Social media
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1869-5450
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sreenivasulu Madichetty151.45
M. Sridevi2165.07