{"id":66,"date":"2013-07-16T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chato.cl\/science\/humanitarian_computing\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:24:25","slug":"humanitarian_computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chato.cl\/science\/humanitarian_computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-847b916a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workshop report (2024)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Lorini, V., Purohit, H., Castillo, C., Gomes, J., Peterson, S., Hugues, A., Oliveira De Souza, D., Fernandez-Marquez, L., Imran, M., Panizio, E., Bakken, R., Salamon, P. and Santini, M. <a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/lorini_2024_workshop_social_media_disaster_management.pdf\">3rd Workshop \u201cSocial Media for Disaster Risk Management: Researchers meet Practitioners\u201d<\/a>. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2760\/86922\">doi<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/repository\/handle\/JRC137998\">jrc<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book (2016)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigcrisisdata.org\/\">Big Crisis Data<\/a>. Cambridge University Press, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Survey (2015)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, Sarah Vieweg: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N92326\">Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey<\/a>&#8221; In ACM Computing Surveys 47 (4), July 2015 [<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1407.7071\">arxiv pre-print<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:150px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigcrisisdata.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cover-400x601-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cover-400x601-1.png 400w, https:\/\/chato.cl\/science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cover-400x601-1-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Research (2013-2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combining authoritative and non-authoritative data<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Valerio Lorini, Paola Rufolo, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/lorini_2022_venice_flood_social_media.pdf\">Venice Was Flooding &#8230; One Tweet at a Time.<\/a> In CSCW 2022. ACM Press. [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3555107\">doi<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3555107\">acm<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Valerio Lorini, Carlos Castillo, Domenico Nappo, Francesco Dottori, and Peter Salamon: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/lorini_2021_social_media_alerts_hydrological_forecasting_floods.pdf\">Social Media Alerts can Improve, but not Replace Hydrological Models for Forecasting Floods<\/a>. Web Intelligence 2020 (Short Papers). [<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2012.05852\">arxiv<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Valerio Lorini, Javier Rando, Diego Saez-Trumper, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/lorini_2020_coverage_natural_disasters_wikipedia.pdf\">Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods<\/a>. ISCRAM, Virginia, USA. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upf.edu\/web\/focus\/noticies\/-\/asset_publisher\/qOocsyZZDGHL\/content\/id\/231971770\/maximized#.YAlOrtYo-V4\">press release<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/idl.iscram.org\/show.php?record=2264\">iscram<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2001.08810\">arxiv<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Valerio Lorini, Carlos Castillo, Francesco Dottori, Milan Kalas, Domenico Nappo, Pater Salamon: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/lorini_2019_social_media_multilingual_flood.pdf\">Integrating Social Media into a Pan-European Flood Awareness System: A Multilingual Approach<\/a>. In ISCRAM. Valencia, Spain. 2019. [<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1904.10876\">arxiv<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/slides\/ISCRAM_2019_social_media_european_flood_awareness_copernicus.pdf\">slides<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/04\/25\/ai-uses-tweets-to-help-researches-monitor-floods\/\">venturebeat<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/04\/25\/european-commission-ai-twitter-flood-data\/\">engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Sarah Vieweg, Carlos Castillo and Muhammad Imran: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/vieweg_castillo_imran_2014_integrating_un_ocha_rapid_social_media_emergencies.pdf\">Integrating Social Media Communications into the Rapid Assessment of Sudden Onset Disasters<\/a>.&#8221; SocInfo 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quality\/prioritization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Muhammad Imran and Rahul Pandey: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/purohit_castillo_imran_pandey_2018_social_eoc_social_media_emergency_operation_center.pdf\">Social-EOC: Serviceability Model to Rank Social Media Requests for Emergency Operation Centers<\/a>. In ASONAM, Barcelona, August 2018. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hemant_pt\/serviceability-model-to-rank-social-media-requests-for-emergency-services-asonam18\">slides<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109%2Fasonam.2018.8508709\">doi<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Muhammad Imran, and Rahul Pandey: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/purohit_castillo_imran_pandey_2018_ranking_social_media_workload_bounds_emergency.pdf\">Ranking of Social Media Alerts with Workload Bounds in Emergency Operation Centers.<\/a> To appear in Web Intelligence, Santiago, Chile, December 2018. ACM\/IEEE. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8609595\">ieee<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/WI.2018.00-88\">doi<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comparisons across languages\/countries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lan Li, Aisha Aldosery, Fedor Vitiugin, Naomi Nathan, David Novillo-Ortiz, Carlos Castillo, Patty Kostkova: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/li_2021_public_health_covid_twitter_countries.pdf\">The Response of Governments and Public Health Agencies to COVID-19 Pandemics on Social Media: A Multi-country Analysis of Twitter Discourse<\/a>. Frontiers in Public Health vol. 9 [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpubh.2021.716333\">doi<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Fedor Vitiugin, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/vityugin_castillo_2019_russian_english_language_differences_twitter_emergency.pdf\">Comparison of Social Media in English and Russian During Emergencies<\/a>. In ISCRAM. Valencia, Spain (WiPe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Irina Temnikova, Carlos Castillo, Sarah Vieweg: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/temnikova_vieweg_castillo_2015_readability_crisis_tweets_disaster_social_media.pdf\">The Case for Readability of Crisis Communications in Social Media<\/a>&#8220;. SWDM 2015, 18-22 May in Florence, Italy. [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chatox\/crisis-readability\">dataset<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combining human and machine intelligence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hemant Purohit, Cody Buntain, Amanda Hughes, Steve Peterson, Valerio Lorini, Carlos Castillo. <a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/purohit_2025_social_media_emergency_management_engage_mobilize.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/\/purohit_2025_social_media_emergency_management_engage_mobilize.pdf\">Engage and Mobilize! Understanding Evolving Patterns of Social Media Usage in Emergency Management<\/a>. To appear in CSCW 2025. [<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.15608\">arxiv<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rahul Pandey, Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Valerie L. Shalin. <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/pandey_purohit_castillo_shalin_2022_modeling_errors_human_ml.pdf\">Modeling and Mitigating Human Annotation Errors to Design Efficient Stream Processing Systems with Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning<\/a>. Int. J. of Human-Computer Studies 160. April 2022. Elsevier. [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijhcs.2022.102772\">doi<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2007.03177\">arxiv<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ferda Ofli, Patrick Meier, Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Devis Tuia, Nicolas Rey, Julien Briant, Pauline Millet, Friedrich Reinhard, Matthew Parkan, St\u00e9phane Joost: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/ofli_meier_imran_castillo_al_2016_combining_human_computing_machine_learning.pdf\">Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response<\/a>. Big Data, March 2016. [<a href=\"http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/big.2014.0064\">liebert<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_castillo_2015_crisis_related_topics_miscellaneous_other.pdf\">Towards a Data-driven Approach to Identify Crisis-Related Topics in Social Media Streams<\/a>&#8220;. SWDM 2015, 18-22 May in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Yannick Naudet and Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_lykourentzou_naudet_castillo_2014_engineering_crowdsourced_stream_processing_systems.pdf\">Engineering Crowdsourced Stream Processing Systems<\/a>. Technical report. [<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1310.5463\">arxiv<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Ji Lucas, Patrick Meier, Jakob Rogstadius: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/\/papers\/iscram_2014_coordinating_human_machine_intelligence_crises.pdf\">Coordinating Human and Machine Intelligence to Classify Microblog Communications in Crises<\/a>&#8220;. ISCRAM 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Sarah Vieweg and Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/stcsn.ieee.net\/e-letter\/vol-2-no-1\/combining-human-and-machine-intelligence-for-processing-of-twitter-data-during-mass-emergencies\">Combining Human and Machine Intelligence for Processing of Twitter Data During Mass Emergencies<\/a>. STCSN e-letter vol. 2 no. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Automatic classification\/extraction\/matching\/summarization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Fedor Vitiugin, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/vitiugin_2022_summarization_social_media_crisis.pdf\">Cross-Lingual Query-Based Summarization of Crisis-Related Social Media: An Abstractive Approach Using Transformers.<\/a> To appear in HyperText 2022. ACM Press. [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3511095.3531279\">doi<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2204.10230\">arxiv<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vitiugin\/cliqs-cm\">code<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Pakhee Kumar, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo. <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/kumar_ofli_imran_castillo_2020_cultural_heritage_disaster_social_media.pdf\">Detection of Disaster-Affected Cultural Heritage Sites from Social Media Images Using Deep Learning Techniques<\/a>. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3383314\">acm<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3383314\">doi<\/a>|<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/crisisnlp.qcri.org\/heritage\">data and demo<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_mitra_castillo_2016_twitter_lifeline_corpus_nlp_crisis_messages.pdf\">Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages<\/a>. In Proc. of LREC 2016, pp. 1638-1643. May 2016, Portoro\u017e, Slovenia. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crisisnlp.qcri.org\/\">datasets<\/a><\/strong>|<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1605.05894\">arxiv<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a title=\"Heatmap of messages in social media during crises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/cscw15-pdfanimversion\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/research\/files\/cscw_2015_heatmap_small.png\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Alexandra Olteanu, Sarah Vieweg and Carlos Castillo: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/olteanu_vieweg_castillo_2015_social_media_crises_transversal_study.pdf\">What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises<\/a>&#8221; In CSCW 2015, 14-18 March in Vancouver, Canada. ACM Press. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crisislex.org\/\">datasets<\/a><\/strong>|<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/2675133.2675242\">doi<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/cscw15-pdfanimversion\">slides<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/tg24.sky.it\/tg24\/mondo\/2015\/02\/18\/twitter_ruolo_disastri_studio_differenti_tipi_di_informazioni.html\">TG24<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/2015\/03\/26\/multimedia\/tecnologia\/terremoti-uragani-e-altre-calamitcos-li-racconta-twitter-jQGdKvF6Dq61Q3axYkfmUI\/pagina.html\">la stampa<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergencymgmt.com\/training\/Crisis-Tweets-Study-Expect-During-Emergencies.html\">emergency mgmt<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/irevolution.net\/2015\/02\/16\/comprehensive-crisis-tweets-study\/\">irevolution<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran and Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_castillo_2014_volunteer_classification_social_media_public_health.pdf\">Volunteer-powered Automatic Classification of Social Media Messages for Public Health in AIDR<\/a>. To appear in Public Health in the Digital Age workshop in WWW 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Shady Elbassuoni, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz and Patrick Meier: <strong><a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_elbassuoni_castillo_diaz_meier_2013_practical_extraction_disaster_crisis.pdf\">Practical Extraction of Disaster-Relevant Information from Social Media<\/a><\/strong>. In SWDM. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013. [<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2488109\">acm<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/research\/files\/best_paper_award.jpg\" align=\"right\">Muhammad Imran, Shady Elbassuoni, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz and Patrick Meier: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/imran_elbassuoni_castillo_diaz_meier_2013_extracting_information_nuggets_disasters.pdf\">Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster-Related Messages in Social Media<\/a>. In ISCRAM. Baden-Baden, Germany, 2013. <strong style=\"color: #000066;\">Best paper award<\/strong> (see &#8220;Practical Extraction &#8230;&#8221; for a follow-up to this work). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mimran15\/imran-iscramnuggest\">slides<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hemant Purohit, Amit Sheth, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier, Fernando Diaz: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5210%2Ffm.v19i1.4848\">Emergency-Relief Coordination on Social Media: Automatically Matching Resource Requests and Offers<\/a>&#8220;. First Monday 19 (1), January 2014. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/ChaTo\/article\/12904048\">bib<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credibility\/trust<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Aditi Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Carlos Castillo and Patrick Meier: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/gupta_kumaraguru_castillo_meier_2014_tweetcred.pdf\">TweetCred: A Real-time Web-based System for Assessing Credibility of Content on Twitter<\/a>. In SocInfo 2014. <strong style=\"color: #000066;\">Runner-up for best paper award<\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1405.5490\">arxiv pre-print<\/a>| <a href=\"www.dailydot.com\/technology\/tweetcred-chrome-extension-addon-plugin\/\">daily dot<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2014\/05\/02\/lies-are-everywhere-on-the-internet-but-this-free-tool-could-potentially-fight-them\/\">wp blogs<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrn.com\/ktnv\/now-trending\/TweetCred-aims-to-rate-the-credibility-of-tweets-258018701.html\">ktnv<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/elements\/2014\/05\/can-tweetcred-solve-twitters-credibility-problem.html\">new yorker<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/wwwhatsnew.com\/2014\/05\/06\/tweetcred-para-analizar-la-credibilidad-de-la-informacion-en-twitter\/\">wwwhatsnew<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/news\/wegov\/24968\/chrome-extension-rates-tweets-based-their-credibility\">techpresident<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/precogatIIITD\/socinfo-2014\">slides<\/a>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitdigest.iiitd.edu.in\/TweetCred\/\">demo<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/castillo_mendoza_poblete_2010_twitter_credibility.pdf\">Information Credibility on Twitter<\/a>&#8220;. In Proceedings of WWW conference, pp. 675-684. Hyderabad, India. 2011. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/ChaTo\/article\/8938529\">bib<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/r6xefyatyuwg\/information-credibility-on-twitter\/\">slides (complete, prezi)<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/information-credibility-on-twitter\">slides (partial, pdf)<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?405374\">acm<\/a>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/03\/accurate-and-credible-news-tweets-automated-system-finds-them.ars\">ars technica<\/a><\/strong>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204138204576598942105167646.html\">wsj<\/a><\/strong>]. The labels used are available on request: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chato.cl\/blog\/en\/contact.html\">request by mail<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete, Carlos Castillo: &#8220;<a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/mendoza_poblete_castillo_2010_twitter_terremoto.pdf\">Twitter Under Crisis: Can we trust what we RT?<\/a>&#8220;. In SOMA 2010: KDD Workshop on Social Media Analytics, Washington, DC. July 2010. [<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?486625\">acm<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/ChaTo\/article\/7230033\">bib<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/snap.stanford.edu\/soma2010\/program.html\">soma<\/a>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chato.cl\/research\/\">VIDEO<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/08\/18\/twitter-after-a-disaster-is-it-reliable\/?mod=wsj_share_twitter\">wall street journal<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=theres-wisdom-in-those-tweets\">scientific american<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mobile app development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Fuming Shih, Oshani Seneviratne, Daniela Miao, Ilaria Liccardi, Lalana Kagal, Evan Patton, Patrick Meier, Carlos Castillo: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/mobile_app_application_development_disaster_management_2013.pdf\">Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management<\/a>. To be presented at the IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Cities. Beijing, China, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tutorials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Hemant Purohit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/knoesis\/siam-sdm2014tutorialsocialmediawebdataforcrisisresponsecoordination\">Leveraging Social Media and Web of Data to Assist Crisis Response Coordination<\/a>. Tutorial at SDM, Philadelphia, PA, USA. April 2014. [<a href=\"http:\/\/knoesis.org\/hemant\/present\/sdm2014\">tutorial page<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier and Amit Sheth: <a href=\"http:\/\/knoesis.org\/?q=node\/2633\">Crisis Mapping, Citizen Sensing and Social Media Analytics<\/a>. Tutorial at ICWSM, Cambridge, MA, USA. May 2013. [<a href=\"http:\/\/knoesis.org\/?q=node\/2633\">tutorial page with links and references<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Products\/demos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aidr.qcri.org\/\"><strong>AIDR<\/strong>: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response \u00bb<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Ji Lucas, Patrick Meier and Sarah Vieweg: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/demo_2014_aidr_artificial_intelligence_disaster_response.pdf\">AIDR: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response<\/a>. In WWW 2014 demo [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aidr.qcri.org\/\">aidr.qcri.org<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response (AIDR). International Conference on Crisis Mapping, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013. [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUo_yLR-1xw\">VIDEO<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/veri.ly\/\"><strong>Verily<\/strong>: Crowdsourced Verification \u00bb<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Abdulfatai Popoola, Dmytro Krasnoshtan, Attila Toth, Victor Naroditskiy, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier and Iyad Rahwan: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chato.cl\/papers\/pktncmr_2013_information_verification_natural_disasters.pdf\">Information Verification during Natural Disasters<\/a>. In SWDM workshop. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/information-verification-during-natural-disasters\">slides<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2488111\">acm<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/veri.ly\/\">veri.ly<\/a>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn23427-nowhere-to-hide-the-next-manhunt-will-be-crowdsourced.html\">new scientist (free reg)<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/newscientist_2013_verily.pdf\">local copy<\/a>)|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/514056\/preventing-misinformation-from-spreading-through-social-media\/\">mit technology review<\/a><\/strong>|<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Crowdsourcing-Luegendetektor-fuer-Twitter-und-Co-1849499.html\">heise online<\/a><\/strong>|<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/01\/can_critical_thinking_be_crowdsourced\">foreign policy<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/featured-content\/channel-page\/arts-culture\/middle-article\/information-received-by-boston-police-from-public-via-social-media-was-more-noise-than-knowledge#full\">the national (uae)<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crisislex.org\/\"><strong>CrisisLex<\/strong>: Lexicons and datasets from Twitter during crises \u00bb<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz and Sarah Vieweg: <a class=\"paper\" href=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/papers\/olteanu_castillo_diaz_vieweg_2014_crisis_lexicon_disasters_twitter.pdf\">CrisisLex: A Lexicon for Collecting and Filtering Microblogged Communications in Crises<\/a>. In ICWSM. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. June 2014. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/ChaTo\/article\/13098815\">bib<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/ocs\/index.php\/ICWSM\/ICWSM14\/paper\/view\/8091\">aaai<\/a>||<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crisislex.org\/\">crisislex.org<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talks (partial list)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data &#8211; Velocity, Validity, Volunteering. At: Bergische Universit\u00e4t Wuppertal, December 2018. [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5qrtvDgGEeU\">VIDEO<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1oZCuoRNqz2Jj5W-0HQleA4vhpDcpIANIi5dUv8le0aQ\/edit?usp=sharing\">Big Crisis Data \/ Crisis Informatics<\/a>. At: Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval (RuSSIR), August 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/17NotV2bUW00o_8MSFvldo3Bngl3kPXmgKzB75NXSEWY\/edit?usp=sharing\">Big Crisis Data \/ Digital Disaster Response<\/a>. For: University College of London, June 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, DTIC. March 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Bucaramanga, Colombia, March 2017 (<em>In Spanish&lt;\/em). [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fpbzSwITIiM\">VIDEO (in Spanish)<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Jornadas REE Gesti\u00f3n Grandes Incendios, Toledo, Spain. November 2016. Organizada por Pau Costa Foundation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T6k90dO_vIQ?list=PLg9vWkdCUr2mvjMeVvZYAAOLufF7oOn2A\">VIDEO (in Spanish)<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Data for Good, Fondazione CRT, Turin, Italy. October 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Institut de Seguretat P\u00fablica de Catalunya, July 2016. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/big-crisis-data-for-ispc\">slides<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Machine Learning Study Group at UPF, June 2016. [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HlH81LsuRR8?t=8m31s\">VIDEO<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: University of Uppsala, Sweden. May 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. For: Data Beers Barcelona, May 2016. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JpKb-FUX6FM\">VIDEO<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/keynote-talk-big-crisis-data-an-open-invitation\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/chato.cl\/research\/files\/manaus_2015_screenshot.png\"><\/a>Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/slideshot.epfl.ch\/talks\/306\">Big Crisis Data: an exciting frontier for applied computing <\/a>. Talk at EPFL, December 2015. [<a href=\"http:\/\/slideshot.epfl.ch\/play\/icc_castillo\">VIDEO<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/keynote-talk-big-crisis-data-an-open-invitation\">Big Crisis Data, an Open Invitation<\/a>. Keynote at WebMedia. Manaus, Brazil, October 2015. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/keynote-talk-big-crisis-data-an-open-invitation\">slides<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: Big Crisis Data. Invited talk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/aaai-spring-symp-on-observational-studies-through-social-media-and-other-human-generated-content\/\">AAAI Spring Symp. on Observational Studies through Social Media and Other Human-Generated Content<\/a>. March 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/crisis-computing\">Crisis Computing: Finding Relevant and Credible Information in Social Media During Disasters<\/a>. Keynote at Big Data Analytics. Delhi, India, December 2014. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/crisis-computing\">slides<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Carlos Castillo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ChaToX\/crisis-informatics\">Finding Relevant and Credible Information on Social Media During Disasters<\/a>. Conference on Big Data Systems, Applications, and Privacy. NYU Abu Dhabi, March 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop report (2024) Book (2016) Survey (2015) Research (2013-2025) Combining authoritative and non-authoritative data Valerio Lorini, Paola Rufolo, Carlos Castillo: Venice Was Flooding &#8230; One Tweet at a Time. In CSCW 2022. ACM Press. [doi|acm]. 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