Papers by Natalie Delong
Reporting the Unreported: Event Extraction for Analyzing the Local Representation of Hate Crimes (D19-1)
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Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Leigh Yeh, Mohammad Atari, Brendan Kennedy, Gwenyth Portillo Wightman, Elaine Gonzalez, Natalie Delong, Rhea Bhatia, Arineh Mirinjian, Xiang Ren, Morteza Dehghani
| Challenge: | Existing estimates of hate crimes in the US are under-reported relative to actual number of incidents. |
| Approach: | They propose to use event extraction and multi-instance learning to predict hate crimes in local news articles for cities without official FBI reports. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model compares to FBI reports and shows that hate crimes are under-reported in local press. |