Vol-1832
urn:nbn:de:0074-1832-3

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SMERP 2017
Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness

co-located with European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017)

Aberdeen, UK, April 9, 2017.

Edited by

Saptarshi Ghosh *
Kripabandhu Ghosh
Tanmoy Chakraborty *
Debasis Ganguly **
Gareth Jones *
Marie-Francine Moens ****

* Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India
** Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
*** University of Maryland, College Park, USA
**** IBM Research Labs, Dublin, Ireland
***** Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
****** Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium

Table of Contents

Preface
Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Tanmoy Chakraborty Debasis Ganguly, Gareth Jones, Marie-Francine Moens

Keynote Talks

Summarizing the Situation with Social Media Streams 1
Richard McCreadie
Time-Critical Analysis of Evolving Social Media Streams During Sudden-Onset Events 2-3
Muhammad Imran

Peer-review track

Weakly Supervised Classification of Tweets for Disaster Management 4-13
Girish Keshav Palshikar, Manoj Apte, Deepak Pandita
Identification of Disaster-implicated Named Entities 14-21
Judit Ács, Dávid Márk Nemeskey, András Kornai
Microblog Retrieval in a Disaster Situation: A New Test Collection for Evaluation 22-31
Moumita Basu, Anurag Roy, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Saptarshi Ghosh
Situational Awareness for Low Resource Languages: the LORELEI Situation Frame Annotation Task 32-41
Stephanie M. Strassel, Ann Bies, Jennifer Tracey
Microblog Retrieval for Disaster Relief: How To Create Ground Truths? 42-51
Ribhav Soni, Sukomal Pal

Data challenge Track

Retrieval Task

USI Participation at SMERP 2017 Text Retrieval Task 52-60
Anastasia Giachanou, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani
Comparative Evaluation of Query Expansion Methods for Enhanced Search on Microblog Data: DCU ADAPT @ SMERP 2017 Workshop Data Challenge 61-72
Wei Li, Gareth J. F. Jones
Extracting Humanitarian Information from Tweets 73-84
Ali Hürriyetoǧlu, Nelleke Oostdijk
Information Extraction from Microblog for Disaster Related Event 85-92
Rishab Singla, Sandip Modha, Prasenjit Majumder, Chintak Mandalia
Sensing Microblog for Effective Information Extractions 93-98
Sindur Patel, Nirav Bhatt, Chandni Shah, Rutvika Nanecha

Summarization Task

USI Participation at SMERP 2017 Text Summarization Task 99-103
Anastasia Giachanou, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani
Summarizing Microblogs for Emergency Relief and Preparedness 104-108
Kanav Mehra, Vibhash Chandra
Summarizing Disaster Related Event from Microblog 109-115
Rishab Singla, Sandip Modha, Prasenjit Majumder, Chintak Mandalia
Multilingual Microblog Summarization 116-121
Sindur Patel, Nirav Bhatt, Chandni Shah, Rutvika Nanecha

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