IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets

Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed


Abstract
Extracting geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, in locating incidents for planning rescue activities, and affected people for evacuation. Nevertheless, geolocation extraction is greatly understudied for the low resource languages such as Arabic. To fill this gap, we introduce IDRISI-RA, the first publicly-available Arabic Location Mention Recognition (LMR) dataset that provides human- and automatically-labeled versions in order of thousands and millions of tweets, respectively. It contains both location mentions and their types (e.g., district, city). Our extensive analysis shows the decent geographical, domain, location granularity, temporal, and dialectical coverage of IDRISI-RA. Furthermore, we establish baselines using the standard Arabic NER models and build two simple, yet effective, LMR models. Our rigorous experiments confirm the need for developing specific models for Arabic LMR in the disaster domain. Moreover, experiments show the promising domain and geographical generalizability of IDRISI-RA under zero-shot learning.
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2023.acl-long.901
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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16298–16317
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.901
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.901
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Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, and Tamer Elsayed. 2023. IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 16298–16317, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets (Suwaileh et al., ACL 2023)
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