Predicting Socio-Economic Indicators Using News Events

Predicting Socio-Economic Indicators Using News Events, Chakraborty, S., Venkataraman, A., Jagabathula, S., & Subramanian, L. (2016, August). In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1455-1464. ACM.

Many socio-economic indicators are sensitive to real-world events…In this paper, we propose a novel generative model of real-world events and employ it to extract events from a large corpus of news articles. We introduce the notion of an event class

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