Program and Papers

09:00-09:05 Opening Remarks

• Workshop Chairs: Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, Jie Yin and Maja Vukovic.

09:05-09:55 Keynote by Ken Anderson

• Towards Next-Generation Software Infrastructure for Crisis Informatics Research; Ken Anderson, University of Colorado [SLIDES] [acm dl]

09:55-10:30 Session 1: Systems and Architectures

• D-Sieve: A Novel Data Processing Engine for Efficient Handling of Crises-Related Social Messages by Soudip Roy Chowdhury (INRIA); Hemant Purohit (Wright State University); Muhammad Imran (QCRI). [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741731]
• SUPER: Towards the Use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies by Richard Mccreadie (University of Glasgow); Karolin Kappler (Barcelona Media); Magdalini Kardara (National Technical University of Athens); Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media); Craig Macdonald, John Soldatos, Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow). Short paper. [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741723]

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 2: Filtering and Classification

• Towards a Data-driven Approach to Identify Crisis-Related Topics in Social Media Streams by Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo (QCRI) [SLIDES] [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741729]
• Identifying Relevant Messages in a Twitter-based Citizen Channel for Natural Disaster Situations by Alfredo Cobo, Denis Parra, Jaime Navón (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741719]
• Classification Method for Shared Information on Twitter Without Text Data by Seigo Baba, Fujio Toriumi, Takeshi Sakaki (The University of Tokyo); Kosuke Shinoda, Satoshi Kurihara (The University of Electro-Communications); Kazuhiro Kazama (Wakayama University); Itsuki Noda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741726]
• Combining Automatic and Manual Approaches: Towards a Framework for Discovering Themes in Disaster-Related Tweets by Leif Romeritch Syliongka (De La Salle University), Nathaniel Oco (National University, Philippines), Alron Jan Lam, Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Ma. Divina Gracia Roldan (De La Salle University), Francisco Magno (La Salle Institute of Governance ) and Charibeth Cheng (De La Salle University) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2742125]

12:30-13:40 Lunch

13:40-14:30 Keynote by Daniele Quercia

• Social Media for Cold Management; Daniele Quercia [acm dl]

14:30-15:50 Session 3: Language Processing

• A Linguistically-Driven Approach to Cross-Event Damage Assessment of Natural Disasters from Social Media Messages by Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta (IIT-CNR) [SLIDES] [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741722]
• The Case for Readability of Crisis Communications in Social Media by Irina Temnikova, Sarah Vieweg, Carlos Castillo (QCRI) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741718]
• Thematically Analysing Social Network Content During Disasters Through the Lens of the Disaster Management Lifecycle by Sophie Parsons, Peter M. Atkinson, Elena Simperl, Mark Weal (University of Southampton) [SLIDES] [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741721]

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 4: Models and Case Studies

• Twitter Floods When it Rains. A Case Study of the UK Floods in Early 2014 by Antonia Saravanou, George Valkanas, Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741730]
• Trust-Building through Social Media Communications in Disaster Management by Maria Grazia Busà, Maria Teresa Musacchio (University of Padua), Shane Finan (Trinity College Dublin), Cilian Fennel (Stillwater Communications) [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741724]
• Sentiment Analysis on Microblogs for Natural Disasters Management: a Study on the 2014 Genoa Floodings" by Davide Buscaldi (LIPN); Irazú Hernández Farias (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia). Short paper. [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741727]
• Visualizing Social Media Sentiment in Disaster Scenarios by Yafeng Lu, Xia Hu, Feng Wang, Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Ross Maciejewski (ASU). Short paper. [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741720]
• Disentangling the Lexicons of Disaster Response in Twitter by Nathan Hodas (PNNL); Greg Ver Steeg (ISI); Joshua Harrison, Satish Chikkagoudar, Eric Bell, Courtney Corley (PNNL). Short paper. [doi:10.1145/2740908.2741728]