Developing and Evaluating Annotation Procedures for Twitter Data during Hazard Events

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Kevin Stowe, Martha Palmer, Jennings Anderson, Marina Kogan, Leysia Palen, Kenneth M. Anderson, Rebecca Morss, Julie Demuth, Heather Lazrus

As social media grows more popular, an increasing number of people are using social media platforms to obtain and share information about approaching threats and discuss their interpretations of the threat and their protective decisions.

Decision Making

Improving Classification of Twitter Behavior During Hurricane Events

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Kevin Stowe, Jennings Anderson, Martha Palmer, Leysia Palen, Ken Anderson

We show that feature-based and deep learning methods provide different benefits for tweet classification, and ensemble-based methods using linguistic, temporal, and geospatial features can effectively classify user behavior.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Classification +1