Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

During natural and man-made disasters, people use social media platforms such as Twitter
to post textual and multimedia content to report updates about injured or dead people …

During natural disasters, emergency communication systems become overloaded, and
people are forced to turn to social media to make requests for help. This study employs …

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 …

Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

Social media platforms host discussions about a wide variety of topics that arise everyday.
Making sense of all the content and organising it into categories is an arduous task. A …

Locating timely, useful information during crises and mass emergencies is critical for those
forced to make potentially life-altering decisions. As the use of Twitter to broadcast useful …

Sentiment analysis refers to the class of computational and natural language processing
based techniques used to identify, extract or characterize subjective information, such as …

Social media data have emerged as a new source for detecting and monitoring disaster
events. A number of recent studies have suggested that social media data streams can be …