NLP

**Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches** - with Ines Rehbein (Mannheim), Nikolay Marinov (U Houston), Federico Nanni (Alan Turing Institute) We introduce Named-Entity Recognition (NER), a …

Contributor to Roundtable on: Islam, Politics, and Development

**Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches** - with Ines Rehbein (Mannheim), Nikolay Marinov (U Houston), Federico Nanni (Alan Turing Institute) We introduce Named-Entity Recognition (NER), a …

Illiberal Communication and Election Intervention During the Refugee Crisis in Germany

**Accepted at Journal of Peace Reseach** Existing datasets of economic sanctions do not tend to take full advantage of government documents related to economic coercion. They may miss some economic sanctions, and do not capture some important details …

International relations research is animated by the notion that leaders matter. Existing approaches rely on proxies such as regime type to infer the importance of individuals. We propose a new measure, one based on leader mentions relative to country …