To cite conflibertR in publications, please cite the ConfliBERT model paper (Hu et al. 2022). If you use the question-answering or generative-comparison features, please also cite Brandt et al. (2025).

Hu Y, Hosseini M, Parolin ES, Osorio J, Khan L, Brandt P, D'Orazio V (2022). “ConfliBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence.” In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 5469–5482. doi:10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.400.

Brandt PT, Alsarra S, D'Orazio V, Heintze D, Khan L, Meher S, Osorio J, Sianan M (2025). “Extractive versus Generative Language Models for Political Conflict Text Classification.” Political Analysis, 1–29.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @InProceedings{,
    title = {{ConfliBERT}: A Pre-trained Language Model for Political
      Conflict and Violence},
    author = {Yibo Hu and MohammadSaleh Hosseini and Erick Skorupa
      Parolin and Javier Osorio and Latifur Khan and Patrick Brandt and
      Vito D'Orazio},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North
      American Chapter of the Association for Computational
      Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
    year = {2022},
    pages = {5469--5482},
    doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.400},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Extractive versus Generative Language Models for Political
      Conflict Text Classification},
    author = {Patrick T. Brandt and Sultan Alsarra and Vito D'Orazio
      and Dagmar Heintze and Latifur Khan and Shreyas Meher and Javier
      Osorio and Marcus Sianan},
    journal = {Political Analysis},
    year = {2025},
    pages = {1--29},
  }