A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …

This paper develops a social media-disaster resilience analysis framework by categorizing
types of social media use and their challenges to better understand and assess its role in …

Social media has emerged as a critical platform for disseminating real-time information
during disasters. However, extracting actionable resource data, such as needs and …

Extracting precise geographical information from the textual content, referred to as toponym
recognition, is fundamental in geographical information retrieval and crucial in a plethora of …

Quantitative assessment of community resilience can provide support for hazard mitigation,
disaster risk reduction, disaster relief, and long-term sustainable development. Traditional …

Social media has been an instant source of information for natural disasters, such as urban
floods, throughout the world. Ex-post evaluation of the information is considered more …

When a fast kinetic natural disaster occurs, it is crucial that crisis managers quickly
understand the extent of the situation, especially through the development of “big picture” …

The transformation from authoritative to user-generated data landscapes has garnered
considerable attention, notably with the proliferation of crowdsourced geospatial data …

The rapid development of information and communications technology has turned
individuals into sensors, fostering the growth of human-generated geospatial big data. In …

Every day, many short text messages on social media are generated in response to real-
world events, providing a valuable resource for various domains such as emergency …