On Using Synthetic Social Media Stimuli in an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise

Improving Community Resiliency and Emergency Response With Artificial Intelligence

New crisis response and management approaches that incorporate the latest information technologies are essential in all phases of emergency preparedness and response, including the planning, response, recovery, and assessment phases. Accurate and timely information is as crucial as is rapid and coherent coordination among the responding organizations. We are working towards a multipronged emergency response tool that provide stakeholders timely access to comprehensive, relevant, and reliable information. The faster emergency personnel are able to analyze, disseminate and act on key information…

A multi-modal approach towards mining social media data during natural disasters -- a case study of Hurricane Irma

Streaming social media provides a real-time glimpse of extreme weather impacts. However, the volume of streaming data makes mining information a challenge for emergency managers, policy makers, and disciplinary scientists. Here we explore the effectiveness of data learned approaches to mine and filter information from streaming social media data from Hurricane Irma's landfall in Florida, USA. We use 54,383 Twitter messages (out of 784K geolocated messages) from 16,598 users from Sept. 10 - 12, 2017 to develop 4 independent models to filter data for relevance: 1) a geospatial model based on for…

社交媒体中人类在森林火灾疏散中的行为挖掘

Social Media Data Mining of Human Behaviour during Bushfire Evacuation

本文探讨了利用社交媒体数据挖掘森林火灾疏散行为的挑战与方法，提出未来应用及开放问题。