Instructions:
- We meet on Thursdays at 10:30am-12:00pm TX
- Please check the corresponding time in your local schedule
- Also, keep in mind the time change in the Fall
- Use the Teams Link to join the meeting. (Click here to join now)
- Please feel free to edit the schedule below if you want to lead a discussion or presentation. Make sure you enter your item before the meeting starts.
- If you have a paper or presentation, please include the URL in the schedule.
- If you need admin access, please contact any of the PIs.
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion and introductions for new participants | |
| 2 | " | Congratulations for Sultan and Mohammedsaleh | Feedback or needs for final accepted papers? |
| 3 | D'Orazio | Updates | Oslo, APSA (Spencer, Margaret/Omer), Peace Science |
UTD updates
- Starting on UMN-ODIM data
- Documentation for containers and cloud for ConfliBERT
- Need to set up meetings on Mexican Disappearances Applications
- Fine tuning demos?
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | D'Orazio | APSA Presentation |
UTD updates
- Comments on Berlin / Salzburg presentation
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Dagmar | Questions on building GSRs for NPM data | |
| 3 | Xingyuan | Updates on UMN data | |
| 4 | Ashton and Ethan | Quick container updates | (GitHub Repo) |
| 5 | Niamat | Updates on document filtering and hierarchy | |
| 6 | Dr. Osorio | Updates on ConfliBERT Spanish v2 | |
| 7 | Shreyas | ConflLlama APSA Prez | Link to Slides |
UTD updates
- Conversations with Yibo on AL, zero-shot, and other cross-task and framework ideas
UA updates
- We are beginning work on updating ConfliBERT Spanish
- Scraping thesis and dissertations from university libraries in LatAm
- Trying MT from EN and AR to ES (we need access to the EN corpus at UTD)
- Starting pipeline for political violence event data in Colombia
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | Updates based on recent talks and meetings |
UTD updates
- Followups with partners in MX and AR via Paula and Javier
- Setting up a science gateway / services meeting (Alex Michels, Ethan, Ashton)
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Xingyuan | Updates on ODIM-UMN data | |
| 3 |
UTD updates
- ToI and other task updates
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Shreyas | ToI and dataset | |
| 3 | Dr. Brandt | Macro outline | Link to new paper ideas |
| 4 | Ashton | Docker demo | |
| 5 | Ethan |
UTD updates
- Video tutorial outline in progress
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Dr. Brandt | Survey of papers in progress | |
| 3 | Wenbo | Updates | |
| 4 | Dr. Osorio | Updates on Quantum |
UTD updates
- Setup meetings and plans for getting ConfiBERT Docker and Container info finished next week
- ToI plans
- Review of in progress papers
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Will be late, so start with round robin of updates! | |
| 2 | Xingyuan and Shreyas | Updates on ODIM data cleaning! | |
| 3 | Ashton and Ethan | Container documentation and demo | |
| 4 | More on ToI Application Ideas | ||
| 5 | Sultan | GPU / Delta Allocations |
UTD updates
- Indian cultural categories for contentious politics events
- New grant ideas link Email Dr. Brandt if you want edit access.
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Dagmar | PSSI Presentation Review | |
| 3 | Xingyuan | ODIM-UMN data update |
UTD updates
- Containers have issues tagged on them to be addressed.
- Have singularity / apptainer instructions ready. Just need to get onto web / Github
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Xingyuan | Updates on ODIM-UMN data | |
| 3 | Chaining and stacking LLMs discussion |
UTD updates
- Added container docs to the github repo
- Eval discussions about ODIM-UMN data
- What models should we select on Delta?
- Remember, people are out for PSSI workshop and meeting this week!
- What are options for low / no code ConfliBERT fine-tuning in a GUI?
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Shreyas | ConflLlama 4 NER | |
| 3.1 | Javier and Vito | Post PSSI | |
| 3.2 | Javier | Life Cycle - Reporting Standards paper | |
| 4 | ODIM-UMN Disappearances scoring | ||
| 5 | Future funding | Laude Institute |
UTD updates
- Xingyuan working on UMN-ODIM data: moving to Delta
- What should be the performance metric on the Disappearances data!? Need input from Brikena, Javier, Dagmar, etc.
No meeting / Fall Break
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Wenbo | Model updating | |
| 3 | New grant ideas | ||
| 4 | Papers (IPM,etc) |
UTD updates
- Signup for DAC talk on 12/4
- Setting a future meeting with Leah Windsor at Memphis.
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Dr. Brandt | SPRING 2026 Meetings |
| Order | Lead | Topic | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Brandt | Opening discussion | |
| 2 | Xingyuan | Updates on ODIM / Mexican Data | |
| 3 | |||
| 4 |
UTD updates
- Working on new student recruitment in early 2026
- Funding for RSE
- Things in 2026:
- ToI
- More on ODIM
- Argentine Human Rights Data
- QA for UCDP-AEC: compare ConfliBERT to 10+ Gen AIs
WVU updates
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UA updates
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