Author: Kalev Leetaru
Television News Coverage Of Monkeypox Picks Up Slightly
While the WHO was informed of a UK monkeypox case on May 7th, BBC News London did not cover the…
Leveraging Semantic Property For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) have become an effective tool for numerous intelligent applications. Due to their incompleteness, TKG embedding methods…
International Interactions: Forecasting Change In Conflict Fatalities With Dynamic Elastic Net
This paper by Fulvio Attinà, Marcello Carammia and Stefano M. Iacus utilizes GDELT as an input to conflict forecasting: This…
Taiwan Is Getting The Most TV News Attention Of The Past Decade
Domestic TV news mentions of Taiwan in the US picked up in April 2020 and have reached their highest levels…
The Fact-Checkers Have Spoken: We Are Not In A Recession
Last week, Facebook and its fact-checking partners began applying a warning label to some posts claiming that the American economy…
Improving Multilingual Entity Identification And Disambiguation
As we look to ways to help the NLP community move towards truly multilingual approaches, one area of especial interest…
Mentions Of Sanctions Have Collapsed On Television News
Mentions of economic sanctions reached a decade-long high in February 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but rapidly disappeared…
No. 10 Innovation Masterclass: The Innovation Process & Assessing Global Risk Through GDELT
Kalev spoke at the No. 10 Innovation Masterclass today, opening with a look at how GDELT powers an ever-growing fraction…
FTMF: Few-Shot Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion Based On Meta-Optimization And Fault-Tolerant Mechanism
Traditional knowledge graph completion mainly focuses on static knowledge graph. Although there are efforts studying temporal knowledge graph completion, they…
Identifying Conspiracy Theories At Their Earliest Stages
How might we build systems capable of tractable mass-scale scanning of global news coverage for known falsehoods and conspiracy theories?…
TV News Visual Explorer: A Testbed For Exploring The Limitations Of Visual AI Systems & Making Them More Inclusive
The TV Visual Explorer now spans 24 channels from 7 countries in 4 languages, encompassing the majority of the active…
Media and Public Appear To Be Moving On From Inflation
Earlier this year, after long dismissing inflation as “temporary,” the Biden administration finally acknowledged rising consumer costs, with Democrats blaming…
WashPost: Fox Is Talking About Trump Less Because It's Busy Talking About Biden
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump and Biden. Read The Full Article.
ZeroHedge: Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?
ZeroHedge republished Kalev's RealClearPolitics article titled "Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?". Read The Full Article.
A Causal Inquiry Into The Economics Of Migration And Trade
This PhD dissertation by Afnan Al-Malk of the Department of Economics, Lancaster University uses selected data from GDELT. Read The…
Making Visual AI More Inclusive To The World's Diversity
Much as GDELT's 150-language Web NGrams 3.0 dataset offers the potential to make textual AI far more inclusive to the…
Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?
Earlier this year, Elon Musk created shock waves with his unsolicited offer to purchase Twitter, arguing that the social media…
Truly Multilingual NLP: Making AI Inclusive To The World's Diverse Languages
GDELT today spans more than 150 languages from across the world. With the release of the 150-language Web News NGrams…
A Living Laboratory For Studying The World & A Platform To Prototype The Future
GDELT represents both a living laboratory for studying the world in realtime and a platform for prototyping the future of…
NYTimes: Biden Insists There's No Recession As He Confronts Latest Economic Risk
The New York Times references television news coverage of recession. Read The Full Article.
Identifying Politically Polarized Stories & Language
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Television Explorer allows keyword searching of CNN, MSNBC and Fox…
TechCircle: Unicorn 5ire Bets On Proof-Of-Benefit For Platform Adoption
Blockchain startup 5ire uses GDELT as a source to construct a "proof of benefit" layer on top of "proof of…
"You Are Here": Helping The Public Navigate Their Informational Choices
Over the years we've explored how the GKG's outlink graph can be used to construct "you are here" maps of…
Modeling Precursors For Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Via Auto-Encoder Structure
This study explores temporal knowledge graph reasoning: Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning that infers missing facts in the future is…