arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

HUMAID-NER: A Disaster Tweet Dataset for Joint Named Entity Recognition and Event Classification via Uncertainty-Weighted Multitask Learning

HUMAID-NER is the first named entity recognition dataset built on the HumAID benchmark, comprising 60,000 English disaster tweets with approximately 175,000 labeled entity spans across ten operationally motivated entity types. The dataset was created using a reproducible three‑stage hybrid pipeline that combines a spaCy transformer model, disaster‑domain EntityRuler patterns, and structured regular expressions with priority‑based overlap resolution. A joint multitask learning framework using a shared RoBERTa‑large encoder and homoscedastic uncertainty weighting achieves an NER span micro‑F1 of 0.841 and classification macro‑F1 of 0.761, and the authors provide a real‑time web dashboard, dataset, models, and pipeline code for reproducibility.

By Aijaz Ali, Nazish Basir, Sarfaraz Nawaz, Danish Nazir Arain, Haris Ali
arXiv AI
Oct 15

A Decade of PhotoMappers: A Longitudinal Study of Crowdsourced Disaster Photos Geolocalization with Vision-Language Models and Geospatial Reasoning

arXiv:2610.15403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced disaster imagery provides timely, ground-level observations when conventional disaster mapping is delayed or incomplete, yet its geographi...

By Hao Li, Wenping Yin, Fabian Deuser, Jia Jia, Ziqi Liu, Levente Juh\'asz, Fan Zhang, Filip Biljecki
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios

Effective crisis response requires spatially grounded communication that bridges linguistic guidance of civilians with the physical environment, accounting for structural bottlenecks, evolving threats, and agent-specific contexts. Yet, current NLP research in crisis communication remains mainly limited to static, text-only classification settings, overlooking the critical communicative role of AI operators in dynamic, embodied scenarios.