Prof. Tamir Sheafer, Prof. Shaul Shenhav, Ms. Vered Porzycki, Mr. Dror Markus and Mr. Guy Mor
The “Davis index” aims to represent international media attention on the Israeli-Arab conflict and relations, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The index aggregates a list of general categories, such as "Middle East Conflicts" and "Israel and the Arab world"; as well as specific categories, such as "Palestinian organizations", "the BDS movement", and interventions by specific governments or international institutions. The method incorporates topic models for its unsupervised component and deep learning for its supervised component. Both stages take the context into account, while focusing on the sentence as the desired unit of analysis. The result is a multi-label text classification method - attributing multiple topics to each sentence.
