The Gun Violence Database
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.
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