Overview of the FIRE 2016 microblog Track: Information extraction from microblogs posted during disasters

Authors

Saptarshi Ghosh, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
Kripabandhu Ghosh, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Abstract

The FIRE 2016 Microblog track focused on retrieval of mi-croblogs (tweets posted on Twitter) during disaster events. A collection of about 50,000 microblogs posted during a recent disaster event was made available to the participants, along with a set of seven practical information needs during a disaster situation. The task was to retrieve microblogs relevant to these needs. 10 teams participated in the task, submitting a total of 15 runs. The task resulted in comparison among performances of various microblog retrieval strategies over a benchmark collection, and brought out the challenges in microblog retrieval.

First Page

56

Last Page

61

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Recommended Citation

Ghosh, Saptarshi and Ghosh, Kripabandhu, "Overview of the FIRE 2016 microblog Track: Information extraction from microblogs posted during disasters" (2016). Conference Articles. 771.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/conf-articles/771