Here are papers and presentations related to this project:
Brandt, Patrick T., Sultan Alsarra, Vito J. D’Orazio, Dagmar Heintze, Latifur Khan, Shreyas Meher, Javier Osorio, and Marcus Sianan. 2024. “ConfliBERT: A Language Model for Political Conflict.” doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.15060
Patrick Brandt, Latifur Khan, Vito D’Orazio, Javier Osorio. 2024. “Frameworks: Infrastructure For Political And Social Event Data Using Machine Learning.” NSF CSSI PI Meeting.
Spencer Perkins, Vito D’Orazio. 2024. “ConfliBERT: Conflict Based Language Models and Military Exercise Data” West Virginia University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Social and Behavioral Sciences. Poster was the best runner-up.
Alsarra, Sultan Alsarra, Parker Whitehead, Luay Abdeljaber, Naif Alatrash, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Javier Osorio, Vito D’Orazio. 2024. “Extractive Question Answering for Spanish and Arabic Political Text” International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). Pittsburgh, PA. Winner of the Best Paper Award, 2024, SBP-BRIMS. UTD Computer Science Department Announcement. West Virginia University Announcement.
Hu, Yibo, Erick Skorupa Parolin, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito J. D’Orazio and Javier Osorio.
2024. Synthesizing Political Zero-Shot Relation Classification via Codebook Knowledge, NLI, and ChatGPT. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.07876 Github
Alsarra, Sultan Alsarra, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Patrick T. Brandt, and Vito D’Orazio. 2023. “Development Lifecycle for Domain-Specific Large Language Models” (in progress). GitHub.
Yang, Wooseong, Sultan Alsarra, Luay Abdeljaber, Niamat Zawad, Zeinab Delaram, Javier Osorio, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito D’Orazio. 2023. “ConfliBERT-Spanish: A Pre-Trained Spanish Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence” MNLP’23 – 5th IEEE Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, 2023 7th IEEE Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt), Agadir – Essaouira, Morocco. 10.1109/CiSt56084.2023.10409883
Alsarra, Sultan, Luay Abdeljaber, Wooseong Yang, Niamat Zawad, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Javier Osorio and Vito D’Orazio. 2023. “ConfliBERT-Arabic: A Pre-trained Arabic Language Model for Politics, Conflicts and Violence” Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Varna, Bulgaria. September 4–6, 2023, pages 98–108. doi:10.26615/978-954-452-092-2_011
Osorio, Javier and Juan Vásquez. “Classifying Organized Criminal Violence in Mexico using ML and LLMs.” RANLP 2023, Varna, Bulgaria. September 4-6, 2023. URL
Brandt, Patrick T., Khan, Latifur, D’Orazio, Vito, and Osorio, Javier. 2022. “Sustaining Modern Infrastructure For Political And Social Event Data”, CSSI-PI Meeting, Alexandria, VA. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6870773.
Parolin, Erick Skorupa, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Javier Osorio, and Vito D’Orazio. 2022. “Confli-T5: An AutoPrompt Pipeline for Conflict Related Text Augmentation,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Osaka, Japan, 1906-1913, doi:10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020509.
Parolin, Erick, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Patrick Brandt, Javier Osorio, and Vito D’Orazio, 2022. “Multi-CoPED: A Multilingual Multi-Task Approach for Coding Political Event Data on Conflict and Mediation Domain”, In Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 22), August 1-3, 2022, Oxford, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. doi:10.1145/3514094.3534178.
Hu, Yibo, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Erick Skorupa Parolin, Javier Osorio, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito J. DOrazio. 2022. “ConfliBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence.” NAACL: 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Seattle, Washington. July 10-15, 2022. https://github.com/eventdata/ConfliBERT and https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.400.pdf.
Patrick T. Brandt, Vito D’Orazio, Latifur Khan, Yi-Fan Li, Javier Osorio & Marcus Sianan (2022). Conflict Forecasting with Event Data and Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks, International Interactions, doi:10.1080/03050629.2022.2036987.
Vito D’Orazio & Yu Lin (2022) Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems, International Interactions, doi:10.1080/03050629.2022.2017290.
Parolin, Erick, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Javier Osorio, Vito D’Orazio. 2021. “CoMe-KE: A New Transformers Based Approach for Knowledge Extraction on Conflict and Mediation Domain”, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2021), Orlando, FL, USA, December 2021 doi:10.1109/BigDataSecurity-HPSC-IDS49724.2020.00052.
Parolin, Erick, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito DOrazio and Jennifer Holmes. 2021. “3M-Transformers for Event Coding on Organized Crime Domain”, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2021), Porto, PRT, October 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9564232.
Li, Yi-Fan, Bo Dong, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito J. D’Orazio 2021. “Data-Driven Time Series Forecasting for Social Studies Using Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks.” September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) doi:10.1145/3462203.3475929.\
Osorio, Javier, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito D’Orazio, Latifur Khan. 2021. “Revamping Event Coding Using CONFLIBERT.” TADA 2021: 11th Annual Conference on New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data, October 28–29, 2021. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (Cancelled by COVID-19)
Salam, Sayeed and Brandt, Patrick T. and D’Orazio, Vito and Holmes, Jennifer and Osorio, Javier and Khan, Latifur. 2020. “An Online Structured Political Event Dataset based on CAMEO Ontology.” SocArXiv. doi:10.31219/osf.io/vrt4a.
Erick Skorupa Parolin, Latifur Khan, Vito D’Orazio, Javier Osorio, Patrick Brandt and Jennifer Holmes. 2020. “HANKE: Hierarchical Attention Networks for Knowledge Extraction in Political Science Domain”, IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Sydney, October 6–9, 2020. doi:10.1109/DSAA49011.2020.00055.
Salam, Sayeed, Lamisah Khan, Amir El-Ghamry, Patrick Brandt, Jennifer Holmes, Vito D’Orazio, Javier Osorio. 2020. “Automatic Event Coding Framework for Spanish Political News Articles.” 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, (HPSC) and IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS)}, May 25–27. Baltimore, MD, doi:10.1109/BigDataSecurity-HPSC-IDS49724.2020.00052.
Salam, Sayeed, Patrick Brandt, Vito D’Orazio, Jennifer Holmes, Javier Osorio, and Latifur Khan. 2020. “An Online Structured Political Event Dataset Based on CAMEO Ontology.” SocArXiv. March 20. doi:10.31235/osf.io/vrt4a.
Brandt, Patrick T., Vito D’Orazio, Kevin Galambos, Jennifer Holmes, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Erick Skorupa Parolin, Shahreen Psyche. 2020. “Transformer Models for Political Event Data.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. January 2020.
Kim, HyoungAh, Vito D’Orazio, Patrick T. Brandt, Jared Looper, Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, and Michael Shoemate. 2019. “UTDEventData: An R package to access political event data.” Journal of Open Source Software. 4(36), 1322, doi:10.21105/joss.01322.
Osorio, Javier, Viveca Pavon, Sayeed Salam, Jennifer S. Holmes, Patrick T. Brandt, and Latifur Khan. 2019. “Translating CAMEO Verbs for Automated Coding of Event Data.” International Interactions. doi:10.1080/03050629.2019.1632304.
Skorupa Parolin, Erick, Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, Jennifer Holmes. 2019. “Automated Verbal-Pattern Extraction from Political News Articles using CAMEO Event Coding Ontology,” 2019 IEEE 5th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), IEEE Intl Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, (HPSC) and IEEE Intl Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS), Washington, DC, USA, 2019, pp. 258-266. doi:10.1109/BigDataSecurity-HPSC-IDS.2019.00056.
Salam, Sayeed, Patrick T. Brandt, Jennifer S. Holmes, Latifur Khan, 2018. “Distributed Framework for Political Event Coding in Real-Time,” 2018 2nd European Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Bern, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 266-273. doi:10.1109/EECS.2018.00057.
Gunasekaran, Aswin, Maryam Bahjob Imani, Latifur Khan, Christan Grant, Patrick T. Brandt, and Jennifer S. Holmes. 2018. “SPERG: Scalable Political Event Report Geoparsing in Big Data.” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2018). December 10–13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA. doi:10.1109/ISI.2018.8587373.
Brandt, Patrick T. 2018. “An Overview of Our Current Event Data Production Effort: the RIDIR Event Data Project”, presented at Measuring the Political Arena. Institute for Research on Statistics and its Applications (IRSA), University of Minnesota, September 24, 2018.
Brandt, Patrick T. 2018. “How we scaled our big data social science project with XSEDE / TACC”, presented at TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER) at the University of Texas, Austin, TX, September 21, 2018.
Brandt, Patrick T., Vito D’Orazio, and Kate Hyoungah Kim. 2018. “Real Time Event Data and R-Package.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA. August 2018.
Brandt, Patrick T., Vito D’Orazio, and Jared Looper. 2018. “Comparing Big Event Datasets.” Conference of the Society for Political Methodology. Provo, UT. July 2018.
Bagozzi, Benjamin, Patrick T. Brandt, John R. Freeman, Jennifer S. Holmes, Alisha Kim, Agustin Palao Medizabal, and Carly Potz-Nielsen. 2018. “The Prevalence and Severity of Underreporting Bias in Machine and Human Coded Data.” Political Science Research and Methods. doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.11.
Pavon Harr, Viveca, Jennifer S. Holmes, Alisha Kim, Patrick T. Brandt, and Maryam Bahjob Imani. 2018. “Efficiency Gains in Focused Geolocation of Spanish Language Political Event Text Analysis.” Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL April 2018.
Maryam Bahojb Imani, Swarup Chandra, Samuel Ma, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham. 2017. “Focus Location Extraction from Political News Reports with Bias Correction.” IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA) doi:10.1109/BigData.2017.8258141.
Solaimani, Mohiuddin, Salam Sayeed, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt and Vito D’Orazio, 2017. “Re-PAIR: Recommend political actors in real-time from news websites,” IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Boston, MA, 2017, pp. 1333-1340.
Osorio, Javier, Viveca Pavon, Jennifer Holmes, and Patrick T. Brandt. “Redefining Gold Standard Records on Event Data: An Application on Protest.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA. August 2017.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Patrick T. Brandt, Jennifer S. Holmes, Agustin Palao, John R. Freeman and Carly Potz-Nielson. 2017. “Underreporting in Machine vs. Human Coded Event Data: Applications of Occupancy Models.” Conference of the Society for Political Methodology. Madison, WI. July 2017.
Kim, Alisha, Maryam Bahojb Imani, and Patrick T. Brandt. “Geolocation in Political Event Text Analysis.” Conference of the Society for Political Methodology. Madison, WI. July 2017.
Soliamani, Mohiuddin, Latifur Khan, Sayeed Salaam, Vito D’Orazio, Patrick T. Brandt. 2017. “Automatic Political Actor Recommendation In Real-time.” International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_42.
Brandt, Patrick T., Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Vito D’Orazio, Latifur Khan, and Yang Gao. 2017. “The Automated Discovery of Protest Stories From Text”, presented at the Democracy, the State and Protest Conference and Workshop at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 11-12, 2017.
Osorio, Javier, Viveca Pavon, Jennifer S. Holmes, Sayeed Salam, Patrick T. Brandt. “Translating CAMEO, Documenting the translation into Spanish.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 6-9, 2017, Chicago, IL.
Bagozzi, Benjamin E., Patrick T. Brandt, Jennifer S. Holmes, Alisha Kim, John R. Freeman, Agustin Palao, 2016. “External Validation of Event Data.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1, 2016; and Southern Political Science Association, January 2017.
Solaimani, Mohiuddin, Sayeed Salam, Ahmad M. Mustafa, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, and Bhavani Thuraisingham. 2016. “Near Real-Time Atrocity Event Coding,” IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2016, Tucson, Arizona USA, September 28-30, 2016. doi:10.1109/ISI.2016.7745457.
Brandt, Patrick T. “Generating Political Event Data in Near Real Time: Modernizing Political Event Data Collection and Use.” Political Data Science Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, May 12-13, 2016.
Solaimani, Mohiuddin, Rajeevardhan Gopalan, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, and Bhavani Thuraisingham. 2016. “Spark-based Political Event Coding,” IEEE BigdataService, Oxford, UK. doi:10.1109/BigDataService.2016.30.
