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Extractivism: Extracting activist events from news articles using existing NLP tools and services

This video was recorded at 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sydney 2013. Activists have a signicant role in shaping social views and opinions. Social scientists study the events activists are involved in order to nd out how activists shape our views. Unfortunately, individual sources may present incomplete, incorrect, or biased event descriptions. We present a method where we automatically extract event mentions from dierent news sources that could complement, contradict, or verify each other. The method makes use of o-the-shelf NLP tools. It is therefore easy to setup and can also be applied to extract events that are not related to activism.

Keywords:: videolectures, ocwc, oec

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Science and Technology / Computer Science

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: Thomas Ploeger, VU University Amsterdam
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States