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Author Jeremy Diaz; Lise St. Denis; Maxwell B. Joseph; Kylen Solvik; Jennifer K. Balch pdf  isbn
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  Title Classifying Twitter Users for Disaster Response: A Highly Multimodal or Simple Approach? Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Abbreviated Journal Iscram 2020  
  Volume Issue (up) Pages 774-789  
  Keywords User Classification, Disaster Response, Twitter, Model Comparison, Multimodal Deep Learning.  
  Abstract We report on the development of a classifier to identify Twitter users contributing first-hand information during a disaster. Identifying such users helps social media monitoring teams identify critical information that might otherwise slip through the cracks. A parallel study (St. Denis et al., 2020) demonstrates that Twitter user filtering creates an information-rich stream of content, but the best way to approach this task is unexplored. A user's profile contains many different “modalities” of data, including numbers, text, and images. To integrate these different data types, we constructed a multimodal neural network that combines the loss function of all modalities, and we compared the results to many individual unimodal models and a decision-level fusion approach. Analysis of the results suggests that unimodal models acting on Twitter users' recent tweets are sufficient for accurate classification. We demonstrate promising classification of Twitter users for crisis response with methods that are (1) easy to implement and (2) quick to both optimize and infer.  
  Address Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, The Penn State University Department of Geography, The Penn State University; CIRES, Earth Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder; CIRES, Earth Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder; CIRES, Earth Lab, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder; CIRES, Earth Lab, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder  
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  Publisher Virginia Tech Place of Publication Blacksburg, VA (USA) Editor Amanda Hughes; Fiona McNeill; Christopher W. Zobel  
  Language English Summary Language English Original Title  
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  ISSN 978-1-949373-27-69 ISBN 2411-3455 Medium  
  Track Social Media for Disaster Response and Resilie Expedition Conference 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management  
  Notes jad6655@psu.edu Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 2270  
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