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Multi-modal Adversarial Training for Crisis-related Data Classification on Social Media

    • University of Winchester
    • University of Liverpool

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    8 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    Social media platforms such as Twitter are increasingly used to collect data of all kinds. During natural disasters, users may post text and image data on social media platforms to report information about infrastructure damage, injured people, cautions and warnings. Effective processing and analysing tweets in real time can help city organisations gain situational awareness of the affected citizens and take timely operations. With the advances in deep learning techniques, recent studies have significantly improved the performance in classifying crisis-related tweets. However, deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which may be imperceptible to the human, but can lead to model's misclassification. To process multi-modal data as well as improve the robustness of deep learning models, we propose a multi-modal adversarial training method for crisis-related tweets classification in this paper. The evaluation results clearly demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model in improving the robustness of tweet classification.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages232-237
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781728169972
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020
    Event6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020 - Virtual, Bologna, Italy
    Duration: 14 Sept 202017 Sept 2020

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020

    Conference

    Conference6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityVirtual, Bologna
    Period14/09/2017/09/20

    Keywords

    • Adversarial training
    • Convolutional neural network
    • Crisis-related data classification
    • Deep learning
    • Smart city

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