3 papers
cs.CL2024
ConfliBERT: A Language Model for Political Conflict
Patrick T. Brandt, Sultan Alsarra, Vito J. D`Orazio +5
Conflict scholars have used rule-based approaches to extract information about political violence from news reports and texts. Recent Natural Language Processing developments move…
stat.AP2024
The 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction Challenge: Predicting the Number of Fatalities in Armed Conflict, with Uncertainty
HÃ¥vard Hegre, Paola Vesco, Michael Colaresi +37
This draft article outlines a prediction challenge where the target is to forecast the number of fatalities in armed conflicts, in the form of the UCDP `best' estimates, aggregated…
cs.CL2024
Leveraging Codebook Knowledge with NLI and ChatGPT for Zero-Shot Political Relation Classification
Yibo Hu, Erick Skorupa Parolin, Latifur Khan +3
Is it possible accurately classify political relations within evolving event ontologies without extensive annotations? This study investigates zero-shot learning methods that use e…