Forced migration is increasingly becoming a global issue of concern. In this paper, we
present an effective model of targeted event detection, as an essential step towards the
forced migration detection problem. To date, most of the the approaches deal with the event
detection in a general setting with the main objective of detecting the presence or onset of
an event. However, we focus on analyzing the magnitude of a given event from a collection
of text documents such as news articles from multiple sources. We use violence as an …