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Data Scarcity In Event Analysis And Abusive Language Detection, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar

Doctoral Dissertations

Lack of data is almost always the cause of the suboptimal performance of neural networks. Even though data scarce scenarios can be simulated for any task by assuming limited access to training data, we study two problem areas where data scarcity is a practical challenge: event analysis and abusive content detection} Journalists, social scientists and political scientists need to retrieve and analyze event mentions in unstructured text to compute useful statistical information to understand society. We claim that it is hard to specify information need about events using keyword-based representation and propose a Query by Example (QBE) setting for event …