Social networks are widely used for information consumption and
dissemination, especially during time-critical events such as natural
disasters. Despite its significantly large volume, social media content is
often too noisy for direct use in any application. Therefore, it is important
to filter, categorize, and concisely summarize the available content to
facilitate effective consumption and decision-making. To address such issues
automatic classification systems have been developed using supervised modeling
approaches, thanks to the earlier efforts on creating labeled datasets.
However, existing datasets are limited in different aspects (e.g., size,
contains duplicates) and less suitable to support more advanced and data-hungry
deep learning models. In this paper, we present a new large-scale dataset with
~77K human-labeled tweets, sampled from a pool of ~24 million tweets across 19
disaster events that happened between 2016 and 2019. Moreover, we propose a
data collection and sampling pipeline, which is important for social media data
sampling for human annotation. We report multiclass classification results
using classic and deep learning (fastText and transformer) based models to set
the ground for future studies. The dataset and associated resources are
publicly available. this https URL

本文提出一种基于深度学习模型和人类标注的新型大规模社交媒体数据集，用于自然灾害期间信息分类和简洁归纳， 以改善现有数据集的局限性，提高分类准确度。