Overview - Incident Streams 2019

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The ubiquity of mobile internet-enabled devices combined with wide-spread social media use during emergencies is posing new challenges for response personnel. In particular, service operators are now expected to monitor these online channels to extract actionable insights and answer questions from the public. A lack of adequate tools makes this monitoring impractical at the scale of many emergencies. The TREC Incident Streams (TREC-IS) track drives research into solving this technology gap by bringing together academia and industry to develop techniques for extracting actionable insights from social media streams during emergencies.

Track coordinator(s):

• Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow
• Cody Buntain, InfEco Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
• Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Track Web Page: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~richardm/TREC_IS/

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