NICT Disaster Information Analysis System

Kiyonori Ohtake, Jun Goto, Stijn de Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa, Junta Mizuno, Kentaro Inui

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Abstract

Immediately after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the Internet was flooded by a huge amount of information concerning the damage and problems caused by the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear disaster. Many reports about aid efforts and advice to victims were also transmitted into cyberspace. However, since most people were overwhelmed by the massive amounts of information, they could not make proper decisions, and much confusion was caused. Furthermore, false rumors spread on the Internet and fanned such confusion. We demonstrate NICT's prototype disaster information analysis system, which was designed to properly organize such a large amount of disaster-related information on social media during future large-scale disasters to help people understand the situation and make correct decisions. We are going to deploy it using a large-scale computer cluster in fiscal year 2014.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Companion Volume of the Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationSystem Demonstrations
EditorsKentaro Torisawa, Hang Li
PublisherAsian Federation of Natural Language Processing
Pages29-32
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9784990734817
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 2013 Oct 14 → …

Publication series

Name6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Companion Volume of the Proceedings: System Demonstrations

Conference

Conference6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period13/10/14 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software

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