HumAID — kerala_floods_2018

A Twitter dataset of 7,984 tweets from kerala_floods_2018, collected by Alam et al. for kerala_floods_2018 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the kerala_floods_2018 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Kerala flood

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11.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
14.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
keralakeralafloodsfloodreliefkeralafloodreliefpeoplehelpfloodsampaffecteddonatefoodwatervictimsrescuestatefundaidindianeedkeralaflooddonatedsupportcroregovtcampskeralasoshitkeralarelieffundteamvolunteersmaterialscmokeralauaetimegovernmentdisasterworkministermoneyareas000operationsindianchiefkeralafloods2018todaylivesmaterialdistrict
Topic clusters

Topic 0

flood
kerala
toll
death
keralaflood
damage
bad
keralafloods

Topic 1

food
camp
keralafloodrelief
need
contact
volunteer
keralafloods
help

Topic 2

donate
keralafloodrelief
help
donation
kerala
lakh
keralafloods
keralaflood

Topic 3

rescue
operation
team
rss
work
fisherman
army
indian

Topic 4

fund
relief
salary
chief
donate
kerala
distress
flood

Topic 5

pray
prayer
kerala
onam
thought
people
god
flood

Topic 6

uae
aid
foreign
crore
accept
offer
govt
kerala

Topic 7

kerala
flood
amp
beef
state
bjp
cow
uttarakhand

Topic 8

material
truck
relief
send
tonne
keralafloodrelief
dispatch
collect

Topic 9

help
need
keralafloodrelief
keralafloods
keralasos
keralaflood
contact
number

Topic 10

thalapathy
vijay
fans
fan
keralafloodrelief
relief
materials
district
Top hashtags
#keralafloods4.1K
#keralafloodrelief2.3K
#kerala1.2K
#keralaflood436
#keralasos336
#keralarelieffund314
#keralafloods2018236
#standwithkerala211
#floods195
#rebuildkerala163
#keralafloodrescue149
#indiaforkerala126
#doforkerala122
#prayforkerala113
#india98
#donate4kerala91
#keraladonationchallenge90
#keralarains85
#soskerala80
#keralafloodsrelief75

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-kerala_floods_2018
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2020
Source paper
HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
7,984
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2018 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.8 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, U. Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021

126
citations
well cited
16
influential citations
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How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{alam2020humaid,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management},
  series    = {ISCRAM '20}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Alam, F., Ofli, F., & Imran, M. (2020). HumAID — kerala_floods_2018 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Alam, Firoj, et al. HumAID — kerala_floods_2018. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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