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Main Authors: Lamba, Hemank, Abilov, Anton, Zhang, Ke, Olson, Elizabeth M., Dambanemuya, Henry k., Bárcia, João c., Batista, David S., Wille, Christina, Cahill, Aoife, Tetreault, Joel, Jaimes, Alex
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06370
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author Lamba, Hemank
Abilov, Anton
Zhang, Ke
Olson, Elizabeth M.
Dambanemuya, Henry k.
Bárcia, João c.
Batista, David S.
Wille, Christina
Cahill, Aoife
Tetreault, Joel
Jaimes, Alex
author_facet Lamba, Hemank
Abilov, Anton
Zhang, Ke
Olson, Elizabeth M.
Dambanemuya, Henry k.
Bárcia, João c.
Batista, David S.
Wille, Christina
Cahill, Aoife
Tetreault, Joel
Jaimes, Alex
contents Humanitarian organizations can enhance their effectiveness by analyzing data to discover trends, gather aggregated insights, manage their security risks, support decision-making, and inform advocacy and funding proposals. However, data about violent incidents with direct impact and relevance for humanitarian aid operations is not readily available. An automatic data collection and NLP-backed classification framework aligned with humanitarian perspectives can help bridge this gap. In this paper, we present HumVI - a dataset comprising news articles in three languages (English, French, Arabic) containing instances of different types of violent incidents categorized by the humanitarian sector they impact, e.g., aid security, education, food security, health, and protection. Reliable labels were obtained for the dataset by partnering with a data-backed humanitarian organization, Insecurity Insight. We provide multiple benchmarks for the dataset, employing various deep learning architectures and techniques, including data augmentation and mask loss, to address different task-related challenges, e.g., domain expansion. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/dataminr-ai/humvi-dataset.
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spellingShingle HumVI: A Multilingual Dataset for Detecting Violent Incidents Impacting Humanitarian Aid
Lamba, Hemank
Abilov, Anton
Zhang, Ke
Olson, Elizabeth M.
Dambanemuya, Henry k.
Bárcia, João c.
Batista, David S.
Wille, Christina
Cahill, Aoife
Tetreault, Joel
Jaimes, Alex
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Humanitarian organizations can enhance their effectiveness by analyzing data to discover trends, gather aggregated insights, manage their security risks, support decision-making, and inform advocacy and funding proposals. However, data about violent incidents with direct impact and relevance for humanitarian aid operations is not readily available. An automatic data collection and NLP-backed classification framework aligned with humanitarian perspectives can help bridge this gap. In this paper, we present HumVI - a dataset comprising news articles in three languages (English, French, Arabic) containing instances of different types of violent incidents categorized by the humanitarian sector they impact, e.g., aid security, education, food security, health, and protection. Reliable labels were obtained for the dataset by partnering with a data-backed humanitarian organization, Insecurity Insight. We provide multiple benchmarks for the dataset, employing various deep learning architectures and techniques, including data augmentation and mask loss, to address different task-related challenges, e.g., domain expansion. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/dataminr-ai/humvi-dataset.
title HumVI: A Multilingual Dataset for Detecting Violent Incidents Impacting Humanitarian Aid
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06370