Publications

Politics, AI, & Data Science

  1. PDF Radford, B. J., Dai, Y., Stoehr, N., Schein, A., Fernandez, M., & Sajid, H. (2023). Estimating conflict losses and reporting biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(34). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307372120
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:dai:etal:2023,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J. and Dai, Yaoyao and Stoehr, Niklas and Schein, Aaron and Fernandez, Mya and Sajid, Hanif},
      title = {Estimating conflict losses and reporting biases},
      journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
      volume = {120},
      number = {34},
      year = {2023},
      doi = {10.1073/pnas.2307372120},
      url = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2307372120},
      eprint = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2307372120},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{Reported on} by eleven news outlets including: \textit{swissinfo.ch}, \textit{watson.ch}, \textit{RSI.ch}, \textit{La Liberte}, \textit{RTN.ch}, \textit{MSN}, \textit{Bluewin.ch}, \textit{Radio Top}, \textit{Sudostschweiz.ch}, \textit{Cash.ch}, and \textit{GMX.net}.\newline
        \textbf{Impact Factor:} 11.1. \textbf{H5 Index:} 268.},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      author+an = {1=highlight}
    }
    
  2. PDF Stoehr, N., Radford, B. J., Cotterell, R., & Schein, A. (2023). The Ordered Matrix Dirichlet for State-Space Models. In F. Ruiz, J. Dy, & J.-W. van de Meent (Eds.), Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (Vol. 206, pp. 1888–1903). PMLR. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v206/stoehr23a.html
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{pmlr-v206-stoehr23a,
      title = {The Ordered Matrix Dirichlet for State-Space Models},
      author = {Stoehr, Niklas and Radford, Benjamin J. and Cotterell, Ryan and Schein, Aaron},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
      pages = {1888--1903},
      year = {2023},
      editor = {Ruiz, Francisco and Dy, Jennifer and van de Meent, Jan-Willem},
      volume = {206},
      series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
      publisher = {PMLR},
      pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v206/stoehr23a/stoehr23a.pdf},
      url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v206/stoehr23a.html},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{H5 Index:} 91},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      author+an = {2=highlight}
    }
    
  3. Das Purba, M., Ghosh, A., Radford, B. J., & Chu, B. (2023). Software Vulnerability Detection using Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{purba:etal:2023,
      author = {{Das Purba}, Moumita and Ghosh, Arpita and Radford, Benjamin J. and Chu, Bill},
      title = {Software Vulnerability Detection using Large Language Models},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing},
      year = {2023},
      series = {33rd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing},
      publisher = {IEEE},
      keywords = {not-refereed},
      author+an = {3=highlight}
    }
    
  4. PDF Radford, B. J., Dai, Y., Stoehr, N., Schein, A., Fernandez, M., & Sajid, H. (2023). Estimating troop losses on both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war. The Loop. https://theloop.ecpr.eu/estimating-troop-losses-on-both-sides-in-the-russia-ukraine-war/
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:theloop:2023,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J. and Dai, Yaoyao and Stoehr, Niklas and Schein, Aaron and Fernandez, Mya and Sajid, Hanif},
      title = {Estimating troop losses on both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war},
      booktitle = {The Loop},
      publisher = {ECPR},
      url = {https://theloop.ecpr.eu/estimating-troop-losses-on-both-sides-in-the-russia-ukraine-war/},
      year = {2023},
      keywords = {not-refereed},
      author+an = {1=highlight}
    }
    
  5. Dai, Y., Radford, B. J., & Halterman, A. (2022). Political Event Coding as Text-to-Text Sequence Generation. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text (CASE), 117–123.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{dai:radford:halterman:2022,
      author = {Dai, Yaoyao and Radford, Benjamin J. and Halterman, Andrew},
      title = {Political Event Coding as Text-to-Text Sequence Generation},
      journal = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)},
      year = {2022},
      pages = {117--123},
      note = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  6. Hürriyetoğlu, A., Mutlu, O., Duruşan, F., Uca, O., Gürel, A., Radford, B. J., Dai, Y., Hettiarachchi, H., Stoehr, N., Nomoto, T., Slavcheva, M., Vargas, F., Javid, A., Beyhan, F., & Yörük, E. (2022). Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text (CASE), 223–228.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{hürriyetoğlu:etal:2022,
      author = {Hürriyetoğlu, Ali and Mutlu, Osman and Duruşan, Fırat and Uca, Onur and Gürel, Alaeddin and Radford, Benjamin J. and Dai, Yaoyao and Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Stoehr, Niklas and Nomoto, Tadashi and Slavcheva, Milena and Vargas, Francielle and Javid, Aaqib and Beyhan, Fatih and Yörük, Erdem},
      title = {Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022},
      journal = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)},
      year = {2022},
      pages = {223--228},
      note = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics},
      author+an = {6=highlight},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  7. PDF Radford, B. J. (2022). High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory. International Interactions, 48(4), 739–758. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2022.2031182
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20220316,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory},
      journal = {International Interactions},
      volume = {48},
      number = {4},
      pages = {739-758},
      year = {2022},
      publisher = {Routledge},
      doi = {10.1080/03050629.2022.2031182},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2022.2031182},
      eprint = { https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2022.2031182},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{Impact Factor:} 1.2. }
    }
    
  8. Halterman, A., & Radford, B. J. (2021). Few-Shot Upsampling for Protest Size Detection. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL-IJCNLP 2021, 3713–3720. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.325
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20210621,
      author = {Halterman, Andrew and Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Few-Shot Upsampling for Protest Size Detection},
      journal = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL-IJCNLP 2021},
      year = {2021},
      volume = {},
      number = {},
      pages = {3713--3720},
      doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.325},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  9. Radford, B. J. (2021). Regressing Location on Text for Probabilistic Geocoding. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text (CASE 2021), 53–57. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.case-1.8
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20210620,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Regressing Location on Text for Probabilistic Geocoding},
      journal = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021)},
      year = {2021},
      volume = {},
      number = {},
      pages = {53--57},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.case-1.8},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  10. Radford, B. J. (2021). CASE 2021 Task 2: Zero-Shot Classification of Fine-Grained Sociopolitical Events with Transformer Models. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text (CASE 2021), 203–207. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.case-1.25
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20210619,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {CASE 2021 Task 2: Zero-Shot Classification of Fine-Grained Sociopolitical Events with Transformer Models},
      journal = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021)},
      year = {2021},
      volume = {},
      number = {},
      pages = {203--207},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.case-1.25},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  11. Gao, J., & Radford, B. J. (2021). Death by Political Party: The Relationship Between COVID-19 Deaths and Political Party Affiliation. World Medical & Health Policy, 13, 224–249. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.435
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20210407,
      author = {Gao, Jingjing and Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Death by Political Party: The Relationship Between COVID-19 Deaths and Political Party Affiliation},
      journal = {World Medical \& Health Policy},
      year = {2021},
      volume = {13},
      number = {},
      pages = {224--249},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      doi = {10.1002/wmh3.435},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{Impact Factor:} 4.1. \textbf{H5 Index:} 18.}
    }
    
  12. Radford, B. J. (2021). Automated Dictionary Generation for Political Event Coding. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(1), 157–171. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2019.1
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20210201,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Automated Dictionary Generation for Political Event Coding},
      journal = {Political Science Research and Methods},
      year = {2021},
      volume = {9},
      number = {1},
      pages = {157--171},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      doi = {10.1017/psrm.2019.1},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{Impact Factor:} 5.2. \textbf{H5 Index:} 42.}
    }
    
  13. Radford, B. J. (2020). Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Detection and Cross-Document Coreference Resolution of Militarized Interstate Disputes. Proceedings of AESPEN 2020, LREC 2020, 35–41.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20200516,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Detection and Cross-Document Coreference Resolution of Militarized Interstate Disputes},
      journal = {Proceedings of AESPEN 2020, LREC 2020},
      year = {2020},
      volume = {},
      number = {},
      pages = {35--41},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      doi = {},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  14. Radford, B. J. (2019). Multitask Models for Supervised Protest Detection in Texts. Working Notes of CLEF 2019, 2380.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:20190707,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Multitask Models for Supervised Protest Detection in Texts},
      journal = {Working Notes of CLEF 2019},
      year = {2019},
      volume = {2380},
      number = {},
      pages = {},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      doi = {},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed}
    }
    
  15. PDF Richardson, B. D., Radford, B. J., Davis, S. E., Hines, K., & Pekarek, D. (2018). Anomaly Detection in Cyber Network Data Using a Cyber Language Approach. https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10742
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:etal:2018a,
      author = {Richardson, Bartley D. and Radford, Benjamin J. and Davis, Shawn E. and Hines, Keegan and Pekarek, David},
      title = {Anomaly Detection in Cyber Network Data Using a Cyber Language Approach},
      publisher = {Presented at the 2018 ASA Symposium on Data Science and Statistics},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10742},
      year = {2018},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  16. PDF Richardson, B. D., Davis, S. E., & Radford, B. J. (2018). Sequence Aggregation Rules for Anomaly Detection in Computer Network Traffic. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03735
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:etal:2018b,
      author = {Richardson, Bartley D. and Davis, Shawn E. and Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Sequence Aggregation Rules for Anomaly Detection in Computer Network Traffic},
      publisher = {Presented at the 2018 ASA Symposium on Data Science and Statistics},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03735},
      year = {2018},
      author+an = {3=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  17. Minhas, S., & Radford, B. J. (2017). Enemy at the Gates Variation in Economic Growth from Civil Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 61(10), 2105–2129.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{minhasradford2017,
      author = {Minhas, Shahryar and Radford, Benjamin J.},
      title = {Enemy at the Gates Variation in Economic Growth from Civil Conflict},
      journal = {Journal of Conflict Resolution},
      volume = {61},
      number = {10},
      pages = {2105-2129},
      year = {2017},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      keywords = {peer-reviewed},
      addendum = {\newline\textbf{Impact Factor:} 3.2. \textbf{H5 Index:} 51.}
    }
    
  18. PDF Radford, B. J., Apolonio, L., Trias, A., & Simpson, J. A. (2017). Network Traffic Anomaly Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10769
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:etal:2017,
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J. and Apolonio, Leonardo and Trias, Antonio and Simpson, Jim A.},
      title = {Network Traffic Anomaly Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks},
      publisher = {Presented at the 2017 MSS National Symposium on Sensor \& Data Fusion},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10769},
      year = {2017},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  19. Beger, A., Radford, B. J., & Ward, M. D. (2015). Small-scale prediction of IEDs in Afghanistan using split-population duration regression.
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:etal:2015,
      title = { Small-scale prediction of IEDs in Afghanistan using split-population duration regression},
      author = {Beger, Andreas and Radford, Benjamin J. and Ward, Michael D.},
      publisher = {Prepared for the Office of Naval Research},
      year = {2015},
      author+an = {2=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  20. PDF Beger, A., Cutler, J., Dickenson, M., Dorff, C., Radford, B. J., & Ward, M. D. (2013). Comparing GDELT and ICEWS Event Data . https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303211430_Comparing_GDELT_and_ICEWS_event_data
    BibTex Entry
    @inproceedings{radford:etal:2013,
      title = { Comparing GDELT and ICEWS Event Data },
      author = {Beger, Andreas and Cutler, Joshua and Dickenson, Matthew and Dorff, Cassy and Radford, Benjamin J. and Ward, Michael D.},
      publisher = {Published online.},
      url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303211430_Comparing_GDELT_and_ICEWS_event_data},
      year = {2013},
      author+an = {5=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  21. Radford, B. J. (2010). The Evoution of US Policy Towards Iran’s Nuclear Program: Lessons for the Obama Administration. UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:2010,
      title = { The Evoution of US Policy Towards Iran's Nuclear Program: Lessons for the Obama Administration},
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      journal = {UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research},
      year = {2010},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  22. Radford, B. J. (2008). Iran Likely to Take Accusatory Stance at CWC Review Conference . WMD Insights, April, 39–43.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:2008a,
      title = { Iran Likely to Take Accusatory Stance at CWC Review Conference },
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J.},
      journal = {WMD Insights},
      year = {2008},
      volume = {April},
      pages = {39--43},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  23. Radford, B. J., & Spector, L. (2008). Summary of Recent United Nations Security Council, European Union, and United States Sanctions Against Iran. WMD Insights, April, 44–50.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:2008b,
      title = { Summary of Recent United Nations Security Council, European Union, and United States Sanctions Against Iran},
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J. and Spector, Leonard},
      journal = {WMD Insights},
      year = {2008},
      volume = {April},
      pages = {44--50},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }
    
  24. Radford, B. J., & Spector, L. (2008). Algeria, Emirates Plan Nonproliferation-Friendly Nuclear Programs; Egypt Keeps Fuel Cycle Options Open, Rejects Expanded IAEA Monitoring. WMD Insigths, June, 2–7.
    BibTex Entry
    @article{radford:2008c,
      title = { Algeria, Emirates Plan Nonproliferation-Friendly Nuclear Programs; Egypt Keeps Fuel Cycle Options Open, Rejects Expanded IAEA Monitoring},
      author = {Radford, Benjamin J. and Spector, Leonard},
      journal = {WMD Insigths},
      year = {2008},
      volume = {June},
      pages = {2--7},
      author+an = {1=highlight},
      keywords = {not-refereed}
    }