The Amphan Dataset: Humanitarian Classification of Bengali Disaster-Related Tweets

The Amphan Dataset (Bengali Disaster-Related Tweets)

This Amphan dataset is a contribution of the paper titled "Humanitarian Classification of Crisis-related Microblogs in Bengali: A Comparison of Multilingual Pre-trained Language Models", which has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), Elsevier !! For more details about the dataset, please refer to our paper. 

Overview

The Amphan dataset is a collection of 2,400 Bengali-language tweets related to Cyclone Amphan, which struck the Bay of Bengal region in May 2020. The dataset aims to support the classification of disaster-related social media content in low-resource languages such as Bengali, with a focus on humanitarian aid and crisis response. 

To our knowledge, this is the first publicly available dataset of disaster-related social media posts in Bengali. Despite being developed in the context of Cyclone Amphan, this dataset has broader relevance due to the frequent occurrence of cyclonic storms affecting the region comprising Bangladesh and eastern India.

Dataset structure

The Amphan dataset in this repository is provided in Excel (.xlsx) format and contains 2,400 tweets (microblogs). The dataset includes the following columns:

 ID: Unique identifier for each tweet

Tweet_in_Bengali: Original tweet text written in Bengali

Tweet_in_EN_IndicTrans: English translation generated via a neural machine translation model, IndicTrans

Label: One or more humanitarian class labels assigned to the tweet

Annotation and Class Labels

The tweets were annotated with a set of humanitarian class labels based on the type of information conveyed. The dataset is multi-label, meaning a tweet can belong to more than one class. The labels are as follows:

affected_individual

caution_advice_updates

displaced_and_evacuations

donations_and_volunteering

infrastructure_and_utilities_damage

injured_or_dead_people

missing_and_found_people

requests_or_needs

response_efforts

sympathy_and_support

not_humanitarian

License

The Amphan dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Citation

This dataset is released publicly for non-commercial research and academic purposes. Please cite our paper when using the data in any publication or derived work.