information extraction

A bag of tricks for efficient, custom event data production, using transformer-based classifiers, question-answering models, Wikipedia entity linking, and active learning.

This workshop provides an interactive introduction to information extraction for social science–techniques for identifying specific words, phrases, or pieces of information contained within documents. It focuses on two common techniques, named entity recognition and dependency parses using the spaCy library, and shows how they can provide useful descriptive data about the civil war in Syria.