Overview of the FIRE 2021 track: Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)

ABSTRACT

Microblogging sites such as Twitter play an important role in dealing with various mass emergencies including natural disasters and pandemics. The FIRE2021 track on Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis) focused on two important tasks - (i) to identify claims or fact-checkable tweets, which is the first step towards verifying information posted on social media, and (ii) to detect the vaccine-related stance of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines. © 2021 Owner/Author.