Event-Related Bias Removal for Real-time Disaster Events

@inproceedings{Spiliopoulou2020EventRelatedBR,
  title={Event-Related Bias Removal for Real-time Disaster Events},
  author={Evangelia Spiliopoulou and Salvador Medina Maza and Eduard H. Hovy and Alexander Hauptmann},
  booktitle={Findings},
  year={2020}
}
Social media has become an important tool to share information about crisis events such as natural disasters and mass attacks. Detecting actionable posts that contain useful information requires rapid analysis of huge volumes of data in real-time. This poses a complex problem due to the large amount of posts that do not contain any actionable information. Furthermore, the classification of information in real-time systems requires training on out-of-domain data, as we do not have any data from… 
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