Is a pretrained model the answer to situational awareness detection on social media?

• Main Authors: LO, Siaw Ling, LEE, Kahhe, ZHANG, Yuhao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: pretrained models; situational awareness; BERT; fine tuning; vocabulary extension; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7761; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8764/viewcontent/HICSS_pretrained_models_final.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social media can be valuable for extracting information about an event or incident on the ground. However, the vast amount of content shared, and the linguistic variants of languages used on social media make it challenging to identify important situational awareness content to aid in decision-makin...