Computer-assisted Structuring of Emergency Management Information: A Project Note
Yotaro Watanabe, Kentaro Inui, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Koumoto, Mitsuhiro Higashida, Yuji Maeda, Katsumi Iwatsuki · 2013
In order to achieve high-level resilience against disasters, effective utilization of previous emergency management infor-mation is necessary. The goal of this project is to establish effective utiliza-tion of emergency management informa-tion and emergency response logs that are accumulated as a fundamental dataset to learn lessons for emergencies in the fu-ture. More precisely, we develop a frame-work that simplifies structuring emer-gency management information and cre-ating databases through various media or formats by exploiting technologies such as natural language processing to fix the bottlenecks for inputting information in emergency response sites, to share disas-ter state, and to contribute towards achiev-ing more effective use of human resources. The academic aim of this project is to establish the task of creating a database of emergency management information as a subfield of natural language processing applications. 1