2 papers
cs.CL2021
Few-Shot Upsampling for Protest Size Detection
Andrew Halterman, Benjamin J. Radford
We propose a new task and dataset for a common problem in social science research: "upsampling" coarse document labels to fine-grained labels or spans. We pose the problem in a que…
cs.CL2019
Geolocating Political Events in Text
Andrew Halterman
This work introduces a general method for automatically finding the locations where political events in text occurred. Using a novel set of 8,000 labeled sentences, I create a meth…