Hybrid Knowledge Engineering Leveraging a Robust ML Framework to Produce an Assassination Dataset

Abigail Sticha, Paul Brenner


Abstract
Social and political researchers require robust event datasets to conduct data-driven analysis, an example being the need for trigger event datasets to analyze under what conditions and in what patterns certain trigger-type events increase the probability of mass killings. Fortunately, NLP and ML can be leveraged to create these robust datasets. In this paper we (i) outline a robust ML framework that prioritizes understandability through visualizations and generalizability through the ability to implement different ML algorithms, (ii) perform a comparative analysis of these ML tools within the framework for the coup trigger, (iii) leverage our ML framework along with a unique combination of NLP tools, such as NER and knowledge graphs, to produce a dataset for the the assassination trigger, and (iv) make this comprehensive, consolidated, and cohesive assassination dataset publicly available to provide temporal data for understanding political violence as well as training data for further socio-political research.
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2022.case-1.15
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Vanni Zavarella, Erdem Yörük
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CASE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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106–116
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.case-1.15
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10.18653/v1/2022.case-1.15
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Abigail Sticha and Paul Brenner. 2022. Hybrid Knowledge Engineering Leveraging a Robust ML Framework to Produce an Assassination Dataset. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE), pages 106–116, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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