@conference {1523136, title = {ECO: Using AI for Everyday Armed Conflict Analysis}, booktitle = {AI for Social Good Workshop}, year = {2020}, abstract = { Conflict resolution practitioners consistently struggle with access to structured armed conflict data, a dataset already rife with uncertainty, inconsistency, and politicization. Due to the lack of a standardized approach to collating conflict data, publicly available armed conflict datasets often require manipulation depending upon the needs of end users. Transformation of armed conflict data tends to be a manual, time consuming task that nonprofits with limited budgets struggle to keep up with. In this paper, we explore the use of a deep natural language processing (NLP) model to aid the transformation of armed conflict data for conflict analysis. Our model drastically reduces the time spent on manual data transformations and improves armed conflict event classification by identifying multiple incidence types. This minimizes the human supervision cost and allows nonprofits to access a broader range of conflict data sources to reduce reporting bias. Thus our model contributes to the incorporation of technology in the peace building and conflict resolution sector. Back to AI for Social Good event }, author = {Anusua Trivedi and Kate Keator and Avirishu Verma and Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres} }