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Cross-Context News Corpus for Protest Event-Related Knowledge Base Construction
2021
Data Intelligence
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We describe a gold standard corpus of protest events that comprise various local and international English language sources from various countries. ...
This corpus and the reported results will establish a common foundation in automated protest event collection studies, which is currently lacking in the literature. ...
Erdem Yörük for his project Emerging Welfare. Çagrı Yoltar is a post-doctoral fellow and the project leader of the "Emerging Welfare" project at Koç University, Turkey. ...
doi:10.1162/dint_a_00092
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Cross-context News Corpus for Protest Events related Knowledge Base Construction
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2020
arXiv
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We describe a gold standard corpus of protest events that comprise of various local and international sources from various countries in English. ...
This corpus and the reported results will set the currently lacking common ground in automated protest event collection studies. ...
Erdem Yörük for his project Emerging Welfare. ...
arXiv:2008.00351v1
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STAPLE: Spatio-Temporal Precursor Learning for Event Forecasting
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2018
Proceedings of the 2018 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
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Through studies on civil unrest movements in numerous countries, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for precursor discovery and event forecasting. ...
In this paper, we develop a novel multi-task model with dynamic graph constraints within a multiinstance learning framework. ...
In this paper, we propose STAPLE, a multi-task Spatio-TemporAl Precursor Learning and Event forecasting framework for multiple cities, specifically designed to discover precursors across geolocations with ...
doi:10.1137/1.9781611975321.17
dblp:conf/sdm/NingTRRSR18
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Modeling Precursors for Event Forecasting via Nested Multi-Instance Learning
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2016
arXiv
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Specifically, given a collection of streaming news articles from multiple sources we develop a nested multiple instance learning approach to forecast significant societal events across three countries ...
Our algorithm is able to identify news articles considered as precursors for a protest. ...
Acknowledgments Supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via DoI/NBC contract number D12PC000337, the US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints of this work for ...
arXiv:1602.08033v2
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Modeling Precursors for Event Forecasting via Nested Multi-Instance Learning
2016
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - KDD '16
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Specifically, given a collection of streaming news articles from multiple sources we develop a nested multiple instance learning approach to forecast significant societal events such as protests. ...
Using data from three countries in Latin America, we demonstrate how our approach is able to consistently identify news articles considered as precursors for protests. ...
Acknowledgments Supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via DoI/NBC contract number D12PC000337, the US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints of this work for ...
doi:10.1145/2939672.2939802
dblp:conf/kdd/NingMRR16
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Protest Activity Detection and Perceived Violence Estimation from Social Media Images
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2017
arXiv
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A multi-task convolutional neural network is employed in order to automatically classify the presence of protesters in an image and predict its visual attributes, perceived violence and exhibited emotions ...
Our system characterizes protests along these dimensions. We have collected geotagged tweets and their images from 2013-2017 and analyzed multiple major protest events in that period. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research is supported by UCLA TSG Program, "Visual Big Data: Using Images to Understand Protests. " We also acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation for their donation of hardware ...
arXiv:1709.06204v1
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Protest Activity Detection and Perceived Violence Estimation from Social Media Images
2017
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Multimedia Conference - MM '17
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A multi-task convolutional neural network is employed in order to automatically classify the presence of protesters in an image and predict its visual attributes, perceived violence and exhibited emotions ...
Our system characterizes protests along these dimensions. We have collected geotagged tweets and their images from 2013-2017 and analyzed multiple major protest events in that period. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research is supported by UCLA TSG Program, "Visual Big Data: Using Images to Understand Protests. " We also acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation for their donation of hardware ...
doi:10.1145/3123266.3123282
dblp:conf/mm/WonSJ17
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CLEF ProtestNews Lab 2019: Contextualized Word Embeddings for Event Sentence Detection and Event Extraction
2019
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
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The models were trained on a data corpus collected from Indian news sources, but evaluated on data obtained from news sources from other countries as well, such as China. ...
Our models have obtained competitive results and have scored 3rd in the event sentence detection task and 1st in the event extraction task based on average F1-scores for different test datasets. ...
Lab [19] tries to tackle this problem and has introduced three shared tasks aimed at identifying and extracting event information from news articles across multiple countries. ...
dblp:conf/clef/SkitalinskayaKS19
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Improving the selection of news reports for event coding using ensemble classification
2015
Research & Politics
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data collected. ...
In this paper, we introduce an alternative strategy by establishing a semi-automatic pipeline, where an automatic classification system eliminates irrelevant source material before further coding is done ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank participants at the July 2015 workshop on "Automated Content Analysis in the Social Sciences" at the University of Zurich for comments. ...
doi:10.1177/2053168015615596
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Multi-Task Learning for Spatio-Temporal Event Forecasting
2015
Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - KDD '15
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Specifically, given a collection of locations (e.g., cities), we propose to build forecasting models for all locations simultaneously by extracting and utilizing appropriate shared information that effectively ...
This paper proposes a novel multi-task learning framework which aims to concurrently address all the challenges. ...
Acknowledgement Supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via DoI/NBC contract number D12PC000337, the US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints of this work for ...
doi:10.1145/2783258.2783377
dblp:conf/kdd/ZhaoSYCLR15
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Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News (AESPEN): Workshop and Shared Task Report
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2020
arXiv
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collection across sources, countries, and languages. ...
socio-political event information collection. ...
In the scope of the other event information collection study, Papanikolaou and Papageorgiou1 (2020) processed two news sources in Greek from Greece to create a database of protest events for the period ...
arXiv:2005.06070v1
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Using Computational Linguistics to Enhance Protest Event Analysis
2013
Social Science Research Network
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As a consequence, most of the scholarship still focuses on a narrow set of European countries or the United States and does not cover the period since the early 2000s. ...
As a consequence, most of the scholarship still focuses on a narrow set of European countries or the United States and does not cover the period since the early 2000s. ...
., 2011) , we understand our task insofar as we try to establish semi-automatic procedures to collect a basic set of key indicators of protest events such as the protest form, the number of participants ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2286769
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Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources for Civil Unrest Forecasting
2015
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 - ASONAM '15
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We analyze protest dynamics in six countries of Latin America on a daily level, from November 2012 through August 2014, using multiple data sources that capture social, political and economic contexts ...
We use logistic regression models with Lasso to select a sparse feature set from our diverse datasets, in order to predict the probability of occurrence of civil unrest events in these countries. ...
Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via Department of Interior National Business Center (DoI/NBC) contract number D12PC000337, the US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for ...
doi:10.1145/2808797.2808847
dblp:conf/asunam/KorkmazCKMVR15
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Image as Data: Automated Visual Content Analysis for Political Science
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2018
arXiv
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This article introduces a new class of automated methods based on computer vision and deep learning which can automatically analyze visual content data. ...
We then discuss how these methods can contribute to the study of political communication, identity and politics, development, and conflict, by enabling a new set of research questions at scale. ...
In training, all the model parameters (model weights) are optimized to minimize this loss function across the entire training set. ...
arXiv:1810.01544v1
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A topic-focused trust model for Twitter
2016
Computer Communications
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Twitter is a crucial platform to get access to breaking news and timely information. ...
In this paper, we propose a novel topic-focused trust model to assess trustworthiness of users and tweets in Twitter. ...
For both datasets, we collected data across 10 countries in Latin America from July 2012 to May 2013, including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and ...
doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2015.08.001
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