Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | a complex socio-political system is causing problems such as food insecurity . a first step is to extract past interventions and when and where they have been applied . |
| Approach: | They develop an automatic extraction system to extract past interventions from texts . they analyze a corpus annotated with interventions to foster research . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system extracts past interventions and when and where they have been applied from text . it shows early, encouraging results on extracting interventions . |
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