An Empirical Methodology for Detecting and Prioritizing Needs during Crisis Events (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Social media platforms such as Twitter contain a vast amount of information about the general public’s needs. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Twitter to extract a list of needed resources and detecting sentences that specify who-needs-what resources. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods achieve 0.64 precision on a set of 1,000 annotated tweets and achieve 0.68 F1-score. |
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