Pakistan, Sept. 16 -- At Applied Development Economics (ADE) seminar hosted by the Lahore School of Economics, Dr Ali Hasanain, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, presented findings from his work with colleagues from LUMS and University of California on political violence in Pakistan.
The authors used machine learning techniques to extend and update an existing dataset on political violence (i.e. the BFRS data). The process involved real-time archiving of around 1,624,201 articles from Pakistani English newspapers between 1999 till date. Using a topic modelling algorithm (based on "Injuries and Casualties", "Violence in the World", and "Terrorism"), the authors narro...