TREC-IS

The mass adoption of mobile internet-enabled devices paired with wide-spread use of social media platforms for communication and coordination has created new ways for the public on-the-ground to contact response services. With the rise of social media, emergency service operators are now expected to monitor those channels and answer questions from the public However, they do not have adequate tools or manpower to effectively monitor social media, due to the large volume of information posted on these platforms and the need to categorise, cross-reference and verify that information. TREC-IS aims to provide a base for research to tackle this technology gap... TREC-IS provides multiple Twitter datasets collected from a range of past wildfire, earthquake, flood, typhoon/hurricane, bombing and shooting events, as well as Covid-19. We have had human annotators manually label this data into 25 information types based on the information each tweet contains, such as 'contains location' or is a..

Primary location: Glasgow United Kingdom