Abstract:Measuring the intensity of events is crucial for monitoring and tracking armed conflict. Advances in automated event extraction have yielded massive data sets of "who did what to whom" micro-records that enable datadriven approaches to monitoring conflict. The Goldstein scale is a widely-used expert-based measure that scores events on a conflictualcooperative scale. It is based only on the action category ("what") and disregards the subject ("who") and object ("to whom") of an event, as well as contextual info… Show more
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