Accurate,up to date,and quick information related to any disaster supports disaster management team/authorities to perform quick,easy,and cost-effective response to enhance rescue operations to alleviate the possible ...Accurate,up to date,and quick information related to any disaster supports disaster management team/authorities to perform quick,easy,and cost-effective response to enhance rescue operations to alleviate the possible loss of lives,financial risks,and properties.Due to damaged infrastructure in disaster-affected areas,social media is the only way to share/exchange real time information.Therefore,‘X’(formerly Twitter)has become a major platform for disseminating real-time information during disaster events or emergencies,i.e.,floods and earthquake.Rapid identification of actionable content is critical for effective humanitarian response;however,the brief and noisy nature of tweets makes automated classification challenging.To tackle this problem,this study proposes a hybrid classification framework that integrates term frequency–inverse document frequency(TF-IDF)features with graph convolutional networks(GCNs)to enhance disaster-related tweet analysis.The proposed model performs three classification tasks:identifying disaster-related tweets(achieving 94.47%accuracy),categorizing disaster types(earthquake,flood,and non-disaster)with 91.78%accuracy,and detecting aid requests such as food,donations,and medical assistance(94.64%accuracy).By combining the statistical strengths of TF-IDF with the relational learning capabilities of GCNs,the model attains high accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency and interpretability.The results demonstrate the framework’s strong potential for real-time disaster response,offering valuable insights to support emergency management systems and humanitarian decision-making.展开更多
文摘Accurate,up to date,and quick information related to any disaster supports disaster management team/authorities to perform quick,easy,and cost-effective response to enhance rescue operations to alleviate the possible loss of lives,financial risks,and properties.Due to damaged infrastructure in disaster-affected areas,social media is the only way to share/exchange real time information.Therefore,‘X’(formerly Twitter)has become a major platform for disseminating real-time information during disaster events or emergencies,i.e.,floods and earthquake.Rapid identification of actionable content is critical for effective humanitarian response;however,the brief and noisy nature of tweets makes automated classification challenging.To tackle this problem,this study proposes a hybrid classification framework that integrates term frequency–inverse document frequency(TF-IDF)features with graph convolutional networks(GCNs)to enhance disaster-related tweet analysis.The proposed model performs three classification tasks:identifying disaster-related tweets(achieving 94.47%accuracy),categorizing disaster types(earthquake,flood,and non-disaster)with 91.78%accuracy,and detecting aid requests such as food,donations,and medical assistance(94.64%accuracy).By combining the statistical strengths of TF-IDF with the relational learning capabilities of GCNs,the model attains high accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency and interpretability.The results demonstrate the framework’s strong potential for real-time disaster response,offering valuable insights to support emergency management systems and humanitarian decision-making.
