Extracting Resource Needs and Availabilities From Microblogs for Aiding Post-Disaster Relief Operations

Microblogging sites like Twitter are the important sources of real-time information during disaster/emergency events. During such events, the critical situational information posted is immersed in a lot of conversational content; hence, reliable methodologies are needed for extracting the meaningful information. In this paper, we focus on a particular application that is critical for efficient man...