Sheraz Ali Hassan1, Hamid Masood Khan1, Muhammad Javed1, Mohd Faizal Bin Yusof2, Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh3,*, Fida Muhammad Khan4, Inam Ullah5,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.89, No.2, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084547
- 15 September 2026
Abstract The increasing frequency of natural and human-induced disasters has intensified the need for reliable methods to identify crisis-relevant information from Twitter/X streams. However, tweets are often short, noisy, informal, ambiguous, and context-dependent, making disaster-related tweet classification challenging. This study proposes a lightweight attention-enhanced hybrid deep learning framework for binary disaster-related tweet classification. The framework integrates CNN-based local feature extraction, recurrent contextual modeling, static pre-trained word embeddings, class weighting, training-only data augmentation, and learned neural attention. Two architectures, CNN–LSTM–Attention and CNN–BiGRU–Attention, are evaluated on the labeled Kaggle Disaster Tweets dataset using a leakage-aware protocol in which More >