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Patrick Meier
Researcher at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Publications - 41
Citations - 3113
Patrick Meier is an academic researcher from Qatar Computing Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crowdsourcing & Emergency management. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 40 publications receiving 2764 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick Meier include Columbia University & Peace Research Institute Oslo.
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AIDR: artificial intelligence for disaster response
TL;DR: AIDR has been successfully tested to classify informative vs. non-informative tweets posted during the 2013 Pakistan Earthquake and achieved a classification quality (measured using AUC) of 80%.
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Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster- Related Messages in Social Media
TL;DR: This paper focuses on extracting valuable “information nuggets”, brief, self-contained information items relevant to disaster response, using automatic methods for extracting information from microblog posts that leverage machine learning methods for classifying posts and information extraction.
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TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content on Twitter
TL;DR: This work presents a semi-supervised ranking model for scoring tweets according to their credibility, used in TweetCred, a real-time system that assigns a credibility score to tweets in a user's timeline and evaluates it on a user base of this size.
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Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors chart the spectacular rise of Digital Humanitarians, highlighting how their humanity coupled with innovative Big Data solutions is changing humanitarian relief for forever, and explain the strengths and potential weaknesses of using big data and crowdsourced analytics in crisis situations.
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Practical extraction of disaster-relevant information from social media
TL;DR: This paper studies the nature of social-media content generated during two different natural disasters and trains a model based on conditional random fields to extract valuable information from such content.