From Text to Network: Detecting Events between Political Elites with a Custom Ontology and Chatbot-in-the-loop Text Pipelines

• In Event: Incorporating Large Language Models

Brief Overview

We introduce an event ontology designed to identify interactions between political elites and demonstrate the variability of event extraction based on decisions such as whether to translate documents or to use ChatGPT in the processing pipeline.

Authors

• Tianhong Yin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Nora Webb Williams, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Emily Sallenback, Independent Researcher

• Hyein Ko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Michael Gabbay, University of Washington-Seattle Campus