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Natural Language Processing for Humanitarian Action: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Toward Humanitarian NLP
Frontiers in Big Data, volume 6 (2023), 14 pp.
"Natural language processing (NLP) is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence, which is concerned with developing methods to process and generate language at scale. Modern NLP tools have the potential to support humanitarian action a
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Understanding the Role of Narratives in Humanitarian Policy Change
Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2023), 36 pp.
"Narratives and frames have greater influence on policy change than facts and figures. They have a critical role to play in leveraging political will for transforming the humanitarian system. Humanitarian organisations have greater power to shape narratives than they are willing to admit. The consta
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Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020), 307 pp.
The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
Geneva: Sphere Association, 4th ed. (2018), x, 406 pp.
"The Sphere Handbook is marking its 20th anniversary with the publication of this fourth edition. It is the result of an intense year-long mobilisation of humanitarian actors around the globe and reflects two decades of experience using the standards in front-line operations, policy development and
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Data collection and social media: Innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid? Event report
Brussels: VOICE (2017), 7 pp.
"On 15 May 2017, as a precursor to the annual General Assembly, VOICE hosted an event entitled “Data collection and social media - innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid?”. The event brought together VOICE members, leading practitioners, and academics. The three panellists were Massimo Mar
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The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xxvii, 458 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action addresses the political, ethical, legal and practical issues which influence reactions to humanitarian crisis. It does so by exploring the daily dilemmas faced by a range of actors, including policy makers, aid workers, the private sector and the benef
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Darfur Information Needs Assessment
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2005), 30 pp.
"Information dissemination is constrained by political sensitivity, the vulnerability of public information campaigns to manipulation, the difficulties of ensuring accurate information flow and the logistical impediments of conveying information across Darfur. For these reasons, existing initiatives
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Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills. International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis
Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2002), xiv, 429 pp.
"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrat
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Information and Communication: Evaluation of IT Humanitarian Platforms and Their Possible Utilisation as Coordination Instruments
Amsterdam: European Commission (2002), 45 pp.
"Although it relies heavily on reliable information and long distance communication, the humanitarian community has never taken the lead in developing technologies that are particularly suited to its needs. Over the last decades it has greatly profited, however, from technological innovations in tel
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