Computer-assisted Structuring of Emergency Management Information: A Project Note

In order to achieve high-level resilience against disasters, effective utilization of previous emergency management information is necessary. The goal of this project is to establish effective utilization of emergency management information and emergency response logs that are accumulated as a fundamental dataset to learn lessons for emergencies in the future. More precisely, we develop a framework that simplifies structuring emergency management information and creating 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 disaster state, and to contribute towards achieving 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.