This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

We are now living in a mobile information era, which is fundamentally changing science and
society. Location Based Services (LBS), which deliver information depending on the location …

Abstract Undoubtedly, coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused one of the biggest challenges of
all times. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 150 million infected …

This paper presents a vision for a Disaster City Digital Twin paradigm that can:(i) enable
interdisciplinary convergence in the field of crisis informatics and information and …

With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Numerous important events happen everyday and everywhere but are reported in different
media sources with different narrative styles. How to detect whether real-world events have …

The use of social media platforms such as Twitter significantly increases during natural
hazards. With the emergence of several social media platforms over the past decade, many …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Events are occurrences in specific locations, time, and semantics that nontrivially impact
either our society or the nature, such as earthquakes, civil unrest, system failures …