No Permanent Friends or Enemies: Tracking Relationships between Nations from News (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Understanding complex international relations is important but challenging for civilians . topic models and neural models have been proposed to explore relations without supervision . |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised neural model that integrates linguistic insights into the model to infer relations between nations from news articles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines from topic models and hidden Markov models. |
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