Identifying crisis-related informative tweets using learning on distributions

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Highlights:

• Social network such as Twitter are valuable tools for sharing and informing others about an ongoing crisis.

• Identifying crisis-related informative tweets is an essential tool for authorities to respond quickly to crisis.

• Distributional hypothesis states that meaning similarity and distributional similarity are correlated.

• Based on distributional hypothesis, each crisis-related tweet can be considered as a “distribution”.

• Using the recent development in machine learning, namely, learning on distributions, each object of learning can be considered as a distribution.

• Learning on distributions achieves very good results in identifying informative tweets about a crisis incident.

摘要

•Social network such as Twitter are valuable tools for sharing and informing others about an ongoing crisis.•Identifying crisis-related informative tweets is an essential tool for authorities to respond quickly to crisis.•Distributional hypothesis states that meaning similarity and distributional similarity are correlated.•Based on distributional hypothesis, each crisis-related tweet can be considered as a “distribution”.•Using the recent development in machine learning, namely, learning on distributions, each object of learning can be considered as a distribution.•Learning on distributions achieves very good results in identifying informative tweets about a crisis incident.

论文关键词:Crisis management,Crisis incidents tweets,Learning on distributions

论文评审过程:Received 31 March 2019, Revised 12 October 2019, Accepted 13 October 2019, Available online 2 November 2019, Version of Record 2 November 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102145