Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very High Recall and Precision Event Extraction from Narratives about International Crises
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2022

How do international crises unfold? We conceptualize of international relations as a strategic chess game between adversaries and develop a systematic way to measure pieces, moves, and gambits accurately and consistently over a hundred years of history. We introduce a new ontology and dataset of international events called ICBe based on a very high-quality corpus of narratives from the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project. We demonstrate that ICBe has higher coverage, recall, and precisio