Papers by Jan Matti Dollbaum
A Generalized Approach to Protest Event Detection in German Local News (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Social scientists conduct protest event analysis to learn about developments and trends of the forms, scale and hot topics of political protests. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a German language resource to analyze newspaper articles on protest events . they train and evaluate transformer-based text classifiers to automatically detect relevant newspaper articles . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a binary F1-score of 93.3 %, but does not generalize well to other datasets. |