Unsupervised and Interpretable Domain Adaptation to Rapidly Filter Social Web Data for Emergency Services

Aims to help emergency responders during Natural Disasters

Paper/Cite

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04991 (To appear at ASONAM 2020)

@article{krishnanCrisisTweets,
  title={Unsupervised and Interpretable Domain Adaptationto Rapidly Filter Tweets for Emergency Services},
  author={Krishnan, Jitin and Purohit, Hemant and Rangwala, Huzefa},
  journal={In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)},
  year={2020}
}

Purpose of the model: Train a classifier using past crisis-events where plenty of data is available and generalize it to a new crisis-event with zero data.

Why use this method?

• Unsupervised (no labeled target data is needed)
• Uses Multi-Task Learning to create a better generalizable model for the Low-Resource Crisis-Related Web Data (Tweets)
• Interpretable Predictions

Requirements

Python3.6, Keras, Tensorflow. Or pip install -r requirements.txt to install necessary packages.

Additional Requirements

Download fastText crawl-300d-2M-subword.bin to the current folder. For a smaller fastText word vector file with only words from 2018 TREC task, click here to download from our google drive. If you are using the bin file, set binary=True in mtl.py.

TREC Data

Click Here to view the Jupyter Notebook that provides detailed instructions to construct the TREC datasets for MTL. We don't directly provide them because the dataset is not ours.

MTL: Sample Run

Run

python mtl.py guatemalaEarthquake

This will train a MTL model by combining rest of the crisis events on the 4 tasks and will predict on guatemalaEarthquake. Sample Result:

[69.05, 84.05, 96.76, 93.11]

represents the acccuracy scores for the 4 tasks.

Visualize Attention: Sample Run

Format: python vizualize_attention.py <test-crisis> <filename> <task>. Run

python vizualize_attention.py bostonBombings data/TASKS/priority/bostonBombings/pos priority

This will train a MTL model by combining rest of the crisis events on the 4 tasks. And then, it outputs the attention weights of the tweets from the given file for the specific task. Sample Result:

tweet = "rt <@> <number> buff : boston : police and fbi urging anyone with video of the finish line at the time of the explosion should please come forward . ."
prediction = 1
attention = [('buff', 0.0254), ('boston', 0.0714), ('police', 0.0928), ('fbi', 0.0732), ('urging', 0.0831), ('anyone', 0.0324), ('with', 0.0359), ('video', 0.023), ('finish', 0.013), ('line', 0.0145), ('time', 0.0187), ('explosion', 0.0384), ('should', 0.0323), ('please', 0.0404), ('come', 0.0306), ('forward', 0.0379)]

Click Here to view the Jupyter Notebook that shows the attention heat map.

Contact information

For help or issues, please submit a GitHub issue or contact Jitin Krishnan (jkrishn2@gmu.edu).