Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
2022. ``Forecasting Conflict in Africa with Automated Machine Learning Systems.'' Vito D'Orazio and Yu Lin. International Interactions 48(4): 714-738. doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2022.2017290
2022. ``Conflict Forecasting with Event Data and Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks.'' Patrick Brandt, Vito D'Orazio, Latifur Khan, Yi-Fan Li, Javier Osorio, and Marcus Sianan). International Interactions 48(4): 800-822. doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2022.2036987
2021. ``The MID5 Dataset, 2011-2014: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description.'' Glenn Palmer, Roseanne McManus, Vito D'Orazio, Michael Kenwick, Mikaela Karstens, Chase Bloch, Nick Dietrich, Kayla Kahn, Kellan Ritter, and Michael Soules. Conflict Management and Peace Science 39(4): 470-482. doi.org/10.1177/0738894221995743
2020. ``Conflict Forecasting and Prediction.'' Vito D'Orazio. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.514.
2020. ``The Militarized Interstate Dispute Dataset: Putting Things in Perspective.'' Glenn Palmer, Vito D'Orazio, Michael Kenwick, and Roseanne McManus. International Studies Quarterly 64(2): 480-481.
2020. ``Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute Data: A Response to Gibler, Miller, and Little.'' Glenn Palmer, Vito D'Orazio, Michael Kenwick, and Roseanne McManus. International Studies Quarterly 64(2): 469-475.
2019. ``Buying Blue Helmets: Foreign Aid and the Construction of UN Peacekeeping Missions.'' Andrew Boutton and Vito D'Orazio. Journal of Peace Research 57(2): 312-328.
2019. ``UTDEventData: An R package to access political event data.'' HyoungAh Kim, Vito D'Orazio, Patrick Brandt, Jared Looper, Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, and Michael Shoemate. Journal of Open Source Software 4(36): 1322. doi.org/10.21105/joss.01322
2018. ``Who is a Terrorist? Ethnicity, Group Affiliation, and Understandings of Political Violence.'' Vito D'Orazio and Idean Salehyan. International Interactions 44(6): 1017-1039.
2016. ``Crowdsourcing the Measurement of Interstate Conflict.'' Vito D'Orazio, Michael Kenwick, Matthew Lane, Glenn Palmer, and David Reitter. PLOS ONE 11(6):e0156527. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156527.
2015. ``Kickoff to Conflict: A Sequence Analysis of Intra-State Conflict Preceding Event Structures.'' Vito D'Orazio and James Yonamine. PLOS ONE 10(5):e0122472. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122472.
2015. ``The MID4 Data Set, 2002-2010: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description.'' Glenn Palmer, Vito D'Orazio, Michael Kenwick, and Matthew Lane. Conflict Management and Peace Science 32(2): 222-242.
2014. ``Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Applications of Automated Document Classification Using Support Vector Machines.'' Vito D'Orazio, Steven Landis, Glenn Palmer, and Philip Schrodt. Political Analysis 22(2): 224-242.
2012. ``War Games: North Korea's Reaction to US and South Korean Military Exercises.'' Vito D'Orazio. Journal of East Asian Studies 12(2): 275-294.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications
2022. ``Confli-T5: An AutoPrompt Pipeline for Conflict Related Text Augmentation.'' Erick Skorup Parolin, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Patrick Brandt, Javier Osorio, Vito D'Orazio. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData). Osaka, Dec 2022.
2022. ``ConfliBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence.'' Yibo Hu, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Erick Skorup Parolin, Javier Osorio, Latifur Khan, Patrick Brandt, Vito D'Orazio. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022). Seattle, Jul 2022.
2022. ``Multi-CoPED: A Multilingual Multi-Task Approach for Coding Political Event Data on Conflict and Mediation Domain.'' Erick Skorupa Parolin, Mohammadsaleh Hosseini, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Patrick Brandt, Javier Osorio, and Vito D'Orazio. The 5th AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2022). Oxford, Aug 2022.
2021. ``Data-Driven Time Series Forecasting for Social Studies Using Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural
Networks.'' Yi-Fan Li, Bo Dong, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Patrick T. Brandt, and Vito D'Orazio. Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT `21), pp 61-66.
2021. ``CoMe-KE: A New Transformers Based Approach for Knowledge Extraction on Conflict and Mediation Domain.'' Erick Skorupa Parolin, Yibo Hu, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Patrick T. Brandt, and Vito D'Orazio. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), pp 1449-1459.
2021. ``3M-Transformers for Event Coding on Organized Crime Domain.'' Erick Skorupa Parolin, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Patrick T. Brandt, Vito D'Orazio, and Jennifer Holmes. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), pp 1-10.
2021. ``An Ecosystem of Applications for Modeling Political Violence.'' Aline Bessa, Sonia Castelo, R\'emi Rampin, A\'ecio Santos, Mike Shoemate, Vito D'Orazio, and Juliana Freire. 2021 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pp 2384-2388.
2020. ``HANKE: Hierarchical Attention Networks for Knowledge Extraction in Political Science Domain.'' Erick Skorupa Parolin, Latifur Khan, Javier Osorio, Vito D'Orazio, Patrick T. Brandt, and Jennifer Holmes. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Sydney, pp 410-419.
2020. ``Experiments with One-Class SVM and Word Embeddings for Document Classification.'' Jingnan Bi, HyoungAh Kim, and Vito D'Orazio. 2020 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Working paper.\\sbp-brims.org/2020/proceedings/papers/working-papers/SBP-BRiMS\_2020\_paper\_42.pdf
2020. ``Automatic Event Coding Framework for Spanish Political News Articles.'' Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, Amir El-Ghamry, Patrick Brandt, Jennifer Holmes, Vito D'Orazio, and Javier Osorio. 2020 IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), IEEE Intl Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, (HPSC) and IEEE Intl Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS), Baltimore, MD, pp 246-253.
2019. ``Modeling and Forecasting Armed Conflict: AutoML with Human-Guided Machine Learning.'' Vito D'Orazio, James Honaker, Raman Prasad, and Michael Shoemate. IEEE Big Data: 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense (BDA4CID), Los Angeles, CA, pp 4714-4723.
2019. ``Towards Human-Guided Machine Learning.'' Yolanda Gil, James Honaker, Shikhar Gupta, Yibo Ma, Vito D'Orazio, Daniel Garijo, Qifan Yang, and Neda Jahanshad. 2019 ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Los Angeles, CA, pp. 614-624.
2018. ``TwoRavens for Event Data.'' Vito D'Orazio, Marcus Deng, and Michael Shoemate. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 394-401.
2017. ``RePAIR: Recommend Political Actors in Real-time From News Websites.'' Mohuiddin Solaimani, Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, and Vito D'Orazio. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Boston, MA, pp. 1333-1340.
2017. ``Apart: Automatic Political Actor Recommendation in Real-Time'' Mohuiddin Solaimani, Sayeed Salam, Latifur Khan, Patrick T. Brandt, and Vito D'Orazio. 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, pp. 342-348.
2015. ``Error-Correction and Aggregation in Crowd-Sourcing of Geopolitical Incident Information.'' Alexander Ororbia, Yang Xu, Vito D'Orazio, and David Reitter. 2015 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, pp. 381-387.
2014. ``Statistical Modeling by Gesture: A Graphical, Browser-based Statistical Interface for Data Repositories.'' James Honaker and Vito D'Orazio. Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014.
Unrefereed Manuscripts
2020. ``Towards Evaluating Exploratory Model Building Process with AutoML Systems.'' Sungsoo Ray Hong, Sonia Castelo, Vito D'Orazio, Christopher Benthune, Aecio Santos, Scott Langevin, David Jonker, Enrico Bertini, Juliana Freire. arXiv. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2009.00449.
2020. ``Multinational Corporations and Political Violence: Trends and Forecasts.'' Alero Akporiaye, Vito D'Orazio, and Clint Peinhardt. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/srgeb.
2020. ``An Online Structured Political Event Dataset based on CAMEO Ontology.'' Sayeed Salam, Patrick Brandt, Vito D'Orazio, Jennifer Holmes, Javiar Osorio, Latifur Khan. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/vrt4a.
2016. ``Constraining Cooperation: Military Integration and Government Repression.'' Vito D'Orazio. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/38qhm.
2015. ``Advancing Measurement of Foreign Policy Similarity.'' Vito D'Orazio. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/fuet4.
2015. ``Differential Privacy for Social Science Inference.'' Vito D'Orazio, James Honaker, and Gary King. Sloan Foundation Economics Research Paper No. 2676160, Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=2676160 or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2676160. July 24, 2015.
2014. ``A Latent Measure of Political Protest.'' Erica Chenoweth, Vito D'Orazio, and Joseph Wright. Technical report, Political Instability Task Force. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/2wqfb.
Department of Political Science and Data Sciences
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
West Virginia University
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