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Leveraging Transformer Self Attention Encoder for Crisis Event Detection in Short Texts

Authors : Pantelis Kyriakidis, Despoina Chatzakou, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Analyzing content generated on social media has proven to be a powerful tool for early detection of crisis-related events. Such an analysis may allow for timely action, mitigating or even preventing altogether the effects of a crisis. However, the high noise levels in short texts present in microblogging platforms, combined with the limited publicly available datasets have rendered the task difficult. Here, we propose deep learning models based on a transformer self-attention encoder, which is capable of detecting event-related parts in a text, while also minimizing potential noise levels. Our models’ efficacy is shown by experimenting with CrisisLexT26, achieving up to \(81.6\%\) f1-score and \(92.7\%\) AUC.

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Metadata
Title
Leveraging Transformer Self Attention Encoder for Crisis Event Detection in Short Texts
Authors
Pantelis Kyriakidis
Despoina Chatzakou
Theodora Tsikrika
Stefanos Vrochidis
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Copyright Year
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_19