AI Increases Global Access to Reliable Flood Forecasts

1 code implementation • 30 Jul 2023 • Grey Nearing, Deborah Cohen, Vusumuzi Dube, Martin Gauch, Oren Gilon, Shaun Harrigan, Avinatan Hassidim, Daniel Klotz, Frederik Kratzert, Asher Metzger, Sella Nevo, Florian Pappenberger, Christel Prudhomme, Guy Shalev, Shlomo Shenzis, Tadele Tekalign, Dana Weitzner, Yoss Matias

Using AI, we achieve reliability in predicting extreme riverine events in ungauged watersheds at up to a 5-day lead time that is similar to or better than the reliability of nowcasts (0-day lead time) from a current state of the art global modeling system (the Copernicus Emergency Management Service Global Flood Awareness System).

Management

Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework

no code implementations • 4 Nov 2021 • Sella Nevo, Efrat Morin, Adi Gerzi Rosenthal, Asher Metzger, Chen Barshai, Dana Weitzner, Dafi Voloshin, Frederik Kratzert, Gal Elidan, Gideon Dror, Gregory Begelman, Grey Nearing, Guy Shalev, Hila Noga, Ira Shavitt, Liora Yuklea, Moriah Royz, Niv Giladi, Nofar Peled Levi, Ofir Reich, Oren Gilon, Ronnie Maor, Shahar Timnat, Tal Shechter, Vladimir Anisimov, Yotam Gigi, Yuval Levin, Zach Moshe, Zvika Ben-Haim, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias

During the 2021 monsoon season, the flood warning system was operational in India and Bangladesh, covering flood-prone regions around rivers with a total area of 287, 000 km2, home to more than 350M people.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

ML-based Flood Forecasting: Advances in Scale, Accuracy and Reach

no code implementations • 29 Nov 2020 • Sella Nevo, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Guy Shalev, Oren Gilon, Grey Nearing, Yossi Matias

Floods are among the most common and deadly natural disasters in the world, and flood warning systems have been shown to be effective in reducing harm.

A Joint Named-Entity Recognizer for Heterogeneous Tag-sets Using a Tag Hierarchy

no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Genady Beryozkin, Yoel Drori, Oren Gilon, Tzvika Hartman, Idan Szpektor

We study a variant of domain adaptation for named-entity recognition where multiple, heterogeneously tagged training sets are available.

Domain Adaptation named-entity-recognition +3