Title
Cross-context News Corpus for Protest Events related Knowledge Base Construction
Abstract
We describe a gold standard corpus of protest events that comprise of various local and international sources from various countries in English. The corpus contains document, sentence, and token level annotations. This corpus facilitates creating machine learning models that automatically classify news articles and extract protest event-related information, constructing knowledge bases which enable comparative social and political science studies. For each news source, the annotation starts on random samples of news articles and continues with samples that are drawn using active learning. Each batch of samples was annotated by two social and political scientists, adjudicated by an annotation supervisor, and was improved by identifying annotation errors semi-automatically. We found that the corpus has the variety and quality to develop and benchmark text classification and event extraction systems in a cross-context setting, which contributes to the generalizability and robustness of automated text processing systems. This corpus and the reported results will set the currently lacking common ground in automated protest event collection studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.24432/C5D59R
AKBC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Hürriyetoğlu100.34
Erdem Yörük21268.73
Deniz Yuret368449.39
Osman Mutlu401.69
Çagri Yoltar501.01
Firat Durusan601.01
Burak Gürel700.68