@inproceedings{alrashdi-okeefe-2022-domain,
    title = "Domain Adaptation for {A}rabic Crisis Response",
    author = "Alrashdi, Reem  and
      O{'}Keefe, Simon",
    editor = "Bouamor, Houda  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Darwish, Kareem  and
      Rambow, Owen  and
      Bougares, Fethi  and
      Abdelali, Ahmed  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      Khalifa, Salam  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.wanlp-1.23/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.wanlp-1.23",
    pages = "249--259",
    abstract = "Deep learning algorithms can identify related tweets to reduce the information overload that prevents humanitarian organisations from using valuable Twitter posts. However, they rely heavily on human-labelled data, which are unavailable for emerging crises. Because each crisis has its own features, such as location, time and social media response, current models are known to suffer from generalising to unseen disaster events when pre-trained on past ones. Tweet classifiers for low-resource languages like Arabic has the additional issue of limited labelled data duplicates caused by the absence of good language resources. Thus, we propose a novel domain adaptation approach that employs distant supervision to automatically label tweets from emerging Arabic crisis events to be used to train a model along with available human-labelled data. We evaluate our work on data from seven 2018{--}2020 Arabic events from different crisis types (flood, explosion, virus and storm). Results show that our method outperforms self-training in identifying crisis-related tweets in real-time scenarios and can be seen as a robust Arabic tweet classifier."
}