Twitter Datasets from Crises
The following resources contain crisis-related posts collected from Twitter, human-labeled tweets, dictionaries of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, word2vec embeddings, and other related tools. For more information about these resources, see the following paper.
Please cite the following paper, if you use any of these resources in your research.
Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, Carlos Castillo: Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages. In Proceedings of the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 1638-1643. May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. [Bibtex]
Datasets details:
| Crisis Type | Crisis Name | Country | Language | Number of Tweets | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquake | Nepal Earthquake | Nepal | English | 4,223,937 | 2015 |
| Earthquake | Terremoto Chile | Chile | Spanish | 842,209 | 2014 |
| Earthquake | Chile Earthquake | Chile | English | 368,630 | 2014 |
| Earthquake | California Earthquake | USA | English | 254,525 | 2014 |
| Earthquake | Pakistan Earthquake | Pakistan | English | 156,905 | 2013 |
| Typhoon | Cyclone PAM | Vanuatu | English | 490,402 | 2015 |
| Typhoon | Typhoon Hagupit | Phillippines | English | 625,976 | 2014 |
| Typhoon | Hurricane Odile | Mexico | English | 62,058 | 2014 |
| Volcano | Iceland Volcano | Iceland | English | 83,470 | 2014 |
| Floods | Pakistan Floods | Pakistan | English | 1,236,610 | 2014 |
| Floods | India Floods | India | English | 5,259,681 | 2014 |
| War & Conflicts | Palestine Conflict | Palestine & Israel | English | 27,770,276 | 2014 |
| War & Conflicts | Peshawar School Attack | Pakistan | English | 1,135,655 | 2014 |
| Biological | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) | Worldwide | English | 215,370 | 2014 |
| Biological | Ebola Virus Outbreak | Worldwide | English | 5,107,139 | 2014 |
| Landslide | Landslides worldwide | Worldwide | English | 382,626 | 2014 |
| Landslide | Landslides worldwide | Worldwide | French | 17,329 | 2015 |
| Landslide | Landslides worldwide | Worldwide | Spanish | 75,244 | 2015 |
| Airline Accident | Flight MH370 | Malaysia | English | 4,507,157 | 2014 |