The problem Emergency Ally solves

2020 has been a rough year. We started with a wildfire in Australia , saw half of our world die due to COVID, migrant workers moved across states in our country,skies in California turned orange as the state choked up the fire fumes and what not. We have faced every calamity possible in this year and we , Team Myth Busters think , it would be stupid not to prepare ourselves for the future. So, lo and behold , Emergency Ally, a smart website designed to always be there for you in the time of emergency and get you out of it as soon as possible.
The website is built with the latest NLP models which allows it to help you in the following ways:

1.Input your emergency
2.Classification:Classifies your emergency to a bunch of other related emergency types (which wouldn’t otherwise come to your mind because of the situation you are in)

3. Priority Sorting:Reads between your lines,i.e, our model understands how urgent your search is and assigns it a priority level , so that the closest related help center may come and get you
   4.Location Optimization:Gives you location based suggestions of nearest help centers and their contact information.

You Can Check Our Github Repository Link To Test The Deployed Project.

Challenges we ran into

Identifying a dataset for the priority level and looking for an emergency vocabulary were few of the many challenges we faced. We were eventually able to feature engineer our way through it.
We identified / scraped as many words related to emergency as we could and used spacy’s word corpus to get the similarity score between these sentences and dictionary filled with the words scraped. They were then sorted accordingly. Apart from that, we faced a lot of bugs during deployment which seem to be sort of a daily routine for a developer.
You Can Check Our Github Repository Link To Test The Deployed Project.