The Gun Violence Database

Ellie Pavlick (Uiversity of Pennsylvania), Chris Callison-Burch (Uiversity of Pennsylvania)

(Submitted on 5 Oct 2016)

We describe the Gun Violence Database (GVDB), a large and growing database of gun violence incidents in the United States. The GVDB is built from the detailed information found in local news reports about gun violence, and is constructed via a large-scale crowdsourced annotation effort through our web site, this http URL We argue that centralized and publicly available data about gun violence can facilitate scientific, fact-based discussion about a topic that is often dominated by politics and emotion. We describe our efforts to automate the construction of the database using state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) technologies, eventually enabling a fully-automated, highly-scalable resource for research on this important public health problem.

Comments:Presented at the Data For Good Exchange 2016Subjects:Computers and Society (cs.CY)Cite as:arXiv:1610.01670 [cs.CY] (or arXiv:1610.01670v1 [cs.CY] for this version)

Submission history

From: Ellie Pavlick [view email] 
[v1] Wed, 5 Oct 2016 22:00:14 GMT (7328kb,D)