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      Rapid Classification of Crisis-Related Data on Social Networks using Convolutional Neural Networks

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          The role of social media, in particular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, as a conduit for actionable and tactical information during disasters is increasingly acknowledged. However, time-critical analysis of big crisis data on social media streams brings challenges to machine learning techniques, especially the ones that use supervised learning. The Scarcity of labeled data, particularly in the early hours of a crisis, delays the machine learning process. The current state-of-the-art classification methods require a significant amount of labeled data specific to a particular event for training plus a lot of feature engineering to achieve best results. In this work, we introduce neural network based classification methods for binary and multi-class tweet classification task. We show that neural network based models do not require any feature engineering and perform better than state-of-the-art methods. In the early hours of a disaster when no labeled data is available, our proposed method makes the best use of the out-of-event data and achieves good results.

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          2016-08-12
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          1608.03902
          fdc34dee-4037-4f95-a7d2-5a0d4586fe22

          http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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          10 pages, 2 figures
          cs.CL cs.LG cs.SI

          Social & Information networks,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence

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