Paper ID: 2302.13403
Tweets Under the Rubble: Detection of Messages Calling for Help in Earthquake Disaster
Cagri Toraman, Izzet Emre Kucukkaya, Oguzhan Ozcelik, Umitcan Sahin
The importance of social media is again exposed in the recent tragedy of the 2023 Turkey and Syria earthquake. Many victims who were trapped under the rubble called for help by posting messages in Twitter. We present an interactive tool to provide situational awareness for missing and trapped people, and disaster relief for rescue and donation efforts. The system (i) collects tweets, (ii) classifies the ones calling for help, (iii) extracts important entity tags, and (iv) visualizes them in an interactive map screen. Our initial experiments show that the performance in terms of the F1 score is up to 98.30 for tweet classification, and 84.32 for entity extraction. The demonstration, dataset, and other related files can be accessed at https://github.com/avaapm/deprem
Submitted: Feb 26, 2023