@inproceedings{delucia-etal-2023-multi,
title = "A Multi-instance Learning Approach to Civil Unrest Event Detection on {T}witter",
author = "DeLucia, Alexandra and
Dredze, Mark and
Buczak, Anna L.",
editor = {H{\"u}rriyeto{\u{g}}lu, Ali and
Tanev, Hristo and
Zavarella, Vanni and
Yeniterzi, Reyyan and
Y{\"o}r{\"u}k, Erdem and
Slavcheva, Milena},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text",
month = sep,
year = "2023",
address = "Varna, Bulgaria",
publisher = "INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.case-1.3",
pages = "18--33",
abstract = "Social media has become an established platform for people to organize and take offline actions, often in the form of civil unrest. Understanding these events can help support pro-democratic movements. The primary method to detect these events on Twitter relies on aggregating many tweets, but this includes many that are not relevant to the task. We propose a multi-instance learning (MIL) approach, which jointly identifies relevant tweets and detects civil unrest events. We demonstrate that MIL improves civil unrest detection over methods based on simple aggregation. Our best model achieves a 0.73 F1 on the Global Civil Unrest on Twitter (G-CUT) dataset.",
}
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Multi-instance Learning Approach to Civil Unrest Event Detection on Twitter
%A DeLucia, Alexandra
%A Dredze, Mark
%A Buczak, Anna L.
%Y Hürriyetoğlu, Ali
%Y Tanev, Hristo
%Y Zavarella, Vanni
%Y Yeniterzi, Reyyan
%Y Yörük, Erdem
%Y Slavcheva, Milena
%S Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
%D 2023
%8 September
%I INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
%C Varna, Bulgaria
%F delucia-etal-2023-multi
%X Social media has become an established platform for people to organize and take offline actions, often in the form of civil unrest. Understanding these events can help support pro-democratic movements. The primary method to detect these events on Twitter relies on aggregating many tweets, but this includes many that are not relevant to the task. We propose a multi-instance learning (MIL) approach, which jointly identifies relevant tweets and detects civil unrest events. We demonstrate that MIL improves civil unrest detection over methods based on simple aggregation. Our best model achieves a 0.73 F1 on the Global Civil Unrest on Twitter (G-CUT) dataset.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.case-1.3
%P 18-33
Markdown (Informal)
[A Multi-instance Learning Approach to Civil Unrest Event Detection on Twitter](https://aclanthology.org/2023.case-1.3) (DeLucia et al., CASE-WS 2023)
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