Author name: Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Andreas Niekler

Geolocating News about Extreme Climate Events: A Comparative Analysis of Off-the-Shelf Tools for Toponym Identification in German

Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Andreas Niekler / May 6, 2026

arXiv:2605.03414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Determining the geolocation of extreme climate events and disasters in texts is a common problem in climate impact and adaptation research. Named-entity recognition (NER) tools are typically used to iden…

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Retrieving Floods without Floodlights: Topic Models as Binary Classifiers for Extreme Climate Events in German News

Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Andreas Niekler / May 6, 2026

arXiv:2605.03450v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In studies of media coverage of extreme climate events, NLP methods have become indispensable for identifying relevant texts in large news databases. Still, enough annotated data to train accurate deep l…