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Jess Kropczynski; Rob Grace; Julien Coche; Shane Halse; Eric Obeysekare; Aurélie Montarnal; Frederick Bénaben; Andrea Tapia |
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Identifying Actionable Information on Social Media for Emergency Dispatch |
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Conference Article |
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2018 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018: Innovating for Resilience – 1st International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific. |
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Iscram Ap 2018 |
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428-438 |
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Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), Social Media, Qualitative Coding |
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Crisis informatics researchers have taken great interest in methods to identify information relevant to crisis events posted by digital bystanders on social media. This work codifies the information needs of emergency dispatchers and first responders as a method to identify actionable information on social media. Through a design workshop with public safety professionals at a Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in the United States, we develop a set of information requirements that must be satisfied to dispatch first responders and meet their immediate situational awareness needs. We then present a manual coding scheme to identify information satisfying these requirements in social media posts and apply this scheme to fictitious tweets professionals propose as actionable information to better assess ways that this information may be communicated. Finally, we propose automated methods from previous literature in the field that can be used to implement these methods in the future. |
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University of Cincinnati; The Pennsylvania State University; coles des Mines d'Albi Carmaux; The Pennsylvania State University; The Pennsylvania State University; coles des Mines d'Albi Carmaux; The Pennsylvania State University; coles des Mines d'Albi Carmaux |
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Massey Univeristy |
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Albany, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Kristin Stock; Deborah Bunker |
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English |
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Social Media and Community Engagement Supporting Resilience Building |
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1672 |
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Jess Kropczynski; Rob Grace; Shane Halse; Doina Caragea; Cornelia Caragea; Andrea Tapia |
Title |
Refining a Coding Scheme to Identify Actionable Information on Social Media |
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Conference Article |
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2019 |
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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2019 |
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Dispatch, Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), Social Media, Qualitative Coding. |
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This paper describes the use of a previously established qualitative coding scheme developed through a design workshop with public safety professionals, and applied the schema to social media data collecting during crises. The intention of applying this scheme to existing crisis datasets was to acquire training data for machine learning. Applying the coding scheme to social media data revealed that additional subcategories of the coding scheme are necessary to satisfy information requirements necessary to dispatch first responders to an incident. The coding scheme was refined and adapted into a set of instructions for qualitative coders on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The contribution of this work is a coding scheme that is more directly related to the information needs of public safety professionals. Implications of early results using the refined coding scheme are discussed in terms of proposed automated methods to identify actionable information for dispatch of first responders during emergency incidents. |
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Uiniversity of Cincinnati, United States of America;The Pennsylvania State University;Kansas State University;University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Iscram |
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Valencia, Spain |
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Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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978-84-09-10498-7 |
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T8- Social Media in Crises and Conflicts |
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16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) |
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