World Heritage in danger: Big data and remote sensing can help protect sites in conflict zones

N Levin, S Ali, D Crandall, S Kark - Global environmental change, 2019 - Elsevier
World Heritage sites provide a key mechanism for protecting areas of universal importance.
However, fifty-four UNESCO sites are currently listed as “In Danger”, with 40% of these …

Mapping violent presence of armed actors in colombia

J Osorio, M Mohamed, V Pavon… - … in Cartography and …, 2019 - ica-adv.copernicus.org
Heat maps and Early Warning Systems have traditionally contributed to identifying and
managing risks associated with crime trends, health hazards, and natural disasters …

Known unknowns: media bias in the reporting of political violence

N Dietrich, K Eck - International Interactions, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
How does sourcing affect which events are included in international relations datasets? The
increasing number of machine-coded datasets offers the promise of coding a larger corpus …

Enhancing the Detection of Criminal Organizations in Mexico using ML and NLP

J Osorio, A Beltran - 2020 International Joint Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper relies on Machine Learning (ML) and supervised Natural Language Processing
(NLP) to generate a geo-referenced database on the violent presence of Mexican Criminal …

[PDF][PDF] PLOVER and POLECAT: A new political event ontology and dataset

A Halterman, B Bagozzi, A Beger, P Schrodt… - International Studies …, 2023 - osf.io
Polecat is a new global political event dataset intended to serve as the successor to the
dataset produced by the DARPA Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS) project …

Disaggregating repression: Identifying physical integrity rights allegations in human rights reports

R Cordell, KC Clay, CJ Fariss… - International Studies …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Most cross-national human rights datasets rely on human coding to produce yearly, country-
level indicators of state human rights practices. Hand-coding the documents that contain the …

Human rights violations in space: assessing the external validity of machine-geocoded versus human-geocoded data

L Stundal, BE Bagozzi, JR Freeman, JS Holmes - Political Analysis, 2023 - cambridge.org
Political event data are widely used in studies of political violence. Recent years have seen
notable advances in the automated coding of political event data from international news …

A total error approach for validating event data

S Althaus, B Peyton, D Shalmon - American behavioral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding how useful any particular set of event data might be for conflict research
requires appropriate methods for assessing validity when ground truth data about the …

Is media sentiment associated with future conflict events?

AS Jamison, J Miklian, K Hoelscher, WJ Henisz… - Available at …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Is media sentiment data a leading indicator of conflict events? Analysis through machine
learning and natural language processing techniques allows us to gather and process …

Environmentalism among poor and rich countries: using natural language processing to handle perfunctory support and rising powers

T Johnson, JY Lerner - Review of International Political Economy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In international politics, is environmental protection largely a “rich-country” priority? We
perceive four reasons why, although individual exceptions are possible, the answer would …