Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response (AIDR) is a free and open source platform to filter and classify social media messages related to emergencies, disasters, and humanitarian crises.{{cite web|title=AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response) — Social Tech Guide|url=http://www.socialtech.org.uk/projects/aidr-artificial-intelligence-for-digital-response/|publisher=Social Tech Guide|accessdate=6 January 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response by Muhammad Imran - Research Project on ResearchGate|url=https://www.researchgate.net/project/Artificial-Intelligence-for-Digital-Response|accessdate=7 January 2017}} It has been developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute and awarded the Grand Prize for the 2015 Open Source Software World Challenge.{{cite web|title=Open Source Software Challenge Winner!|url=http://textontechs.com/2015/11/open-source-software-challenge-winner/|publisher=Text on Techs|accessdate=6 January 2017}}{{cite web|title=QCRI's AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response), has been awarded the Grand Prize for the 2015 Open Source Software System Challenge|url=http://qcri.org.qa/resources/in-the-media/oss-2015?backArt=57|accessdate=7 January 2017}}{{cite web|title=10th OSS World Challenge 2016|url=http://ossaward.org/eng/m0301view.do?board_seq=1|website=ossaward.org|accessdate=7 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107095953/http://ossaward.org/eng/m0301view.do?board_seq=1|archive-date=7 January 2017|url-status=dead}}

Muhammad Imran stated that he and his team "have developed novel computational techniques and technologies, which can help gain insightful and actionable information from online sources to enable rapid decision-making" - according to him the system "combines human intelligence with machine learning techniques, to solve many real-world challenges during mass emergencies and health issues".{{cite news|title=20 Innovation Showcases winners to exhibit projects at WISH summit|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/story/519375/20-Innovation-Showcases-winners-to-exhibit-project|newspaper=Gulf Times|accessdate=6 January 2017|date=30 October 2016}}

How to use

It can be used by logging in with ones Twitter credentials and by collecting tweets by specifying keywords or hashtags, like #ChileEarthquake, and possibly a geographical region as well.

Use

It has been deployed in conjunction with UNICEF in Zambia to classify short messages related to AIDS/HIV received through the U-Report platform.{{cite news|title=QCRI technology goes global in tackling health issues|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/story/524924/QCRI-technology-goes-global-in-tackling-health-iss|newspaper=Gulf Times|accessdate=6 January 2017|date=16 December 2016}}{{cite magazine|title=AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2083044-ai-helps-answer-thousands-of-health-queries-in-zambia-via-sms|magazine=New Scientist|accessdate=7 June 2017|date=4 April 2016}}

AIDR was used for the first time during the 2010 Pakistan floods.{{cite magazine|last1=Collins|first1=Katie|title=How AI, Twitter and digital volunteers are transforming humanitarian disaster response|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/digital-humanitarianism|magazine=Wired UK|accessdate=7 January 2017}} The first real test of AIDR took place during the 2014 Iquique earthquake in Chile.{{cite book|last1=Meier|first1=Patrick|title=Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response}}

Related talks and events

Muhammad Imran delivered a keynote talk on the science behind the AIDR system at the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (ISCRAM).{{cite web|title=The Role of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response|date=28 May 2016 |url=https://www.slideshare.net/mimran15/the-role-of-social-media-and-artificial-intelligence-for-disaster-response|publisher=SlideShare|accessdate=7 June 2017}}
Abdelkader Lattab and Ji Lucas also presented the system at the 2016 QCRI-IBM Data Science Connect event.{{cite web|title=IBM Watson scientist visits Qatar to present platform that 'thinks like a human'|url=http://qcri.org.qa/resources/news/qcri-ibm?backArt=1|publisher=QCRI|accessdate=7 January 2017}}