Author:
Singla Annie,Agrawal Rajat
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to propose iStage, i.e. an intelligent hybrid deep learning (DL)-based framework to determine the stage of the disaster to make the right decisions at the right time.
Design/methodology/approach
iStage acquires data from the Twitter platform and identifies the social media message as pre, during, post-disaster or irrelevant. To demonstrate the effectiveness of iStage, it is applied on cyclonic and COVID-19 disasters. The considered disaster data sets are cyclone Fani, cyclone Titli, cyclone Amphan, cyclone Nisarga and COVID-19.
Findings
The experimental results demonstrate that the iStage outperforms Long Short-Term Memory Network and Convolutional Neural Network models. The proposed approach returns the best possible solution among existing research studies considering different evaluation metrics – accuracy, precision, recall, f-score, the area under receiver operating characteristic curve and the area under precision-recall curve.
Originality/value
iStage is built using the hybrid architecture of DL models. It is effective in decision-making. The research study helps coordinate disaster activities in a more targeted and timely manner.
Subject
Library and Information Sciences
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