Classification model of gun violence reports

Text classification model to detect gun violence reports in Brazilian Portuguese.

python
Published

September 16, 2023

The model is based on BERTimbau and fine-tuned with Twitter data labelled by Instituto Fogo Cruzado. It was developed as part of my research at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Model: https://huggingface.co/belisards/gun_violence_ptbr

Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12989

Code: https://github.com/belisards/gunviolence_ptbr