Learning from Natural Disasters

Learning from Regulatory Disasters

Regulatory disasters are catastrophic events or series of events which have significantly harmful impacts on the life, health or financial wellbeing of individuals or the environment. They are caused, at least in part, by failures in, or unforeseen consequences of, the design and /or operation of the regulatory system put in place to prevent those harmful effects from occurring. Regulatory disa...

Natural Disasters

Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Natural Disasters

In this paper, we devise an information retrieval system which can filter and rank tweets according to relevance to the query. We devise methods to understand relationships among entities and action verbs from a small set of manually annotated tweets. We further use these relationships to filter tweets and rank them accordingly. Our results (as published by FIRE Microblog Track) show that we ha...

Epidemics after Natural Disasters

The relationship between natural disasters and communicable diseases is frequently misconstrued. The risk for outbreaks is often presumed to be very high in the chaos that follows natural disasters, a fear likely derived from a perceived association between dead bodies and epidemics. However, the risk factors for outbreaks after disasters are associated primarily with population displacement. T...

poverty and natural disasters

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