2025
AI Action Summit

Text Processing for Mine Action

The Carter Center
Middle East
2025

Project Summary

The Carter Center has partnered with Microsoft AI for Good to pilot a GPT model for conflict event analysis to process information rapidly and equip stakeholders with reliable and actionable information. This text processor will improve the accuracy of the Center’s conflict data labeling and greatly reduce the manual classification of events.
The Center uses conflict data as the basis of its methodology for monitoring the contamination of explosive remnants of war in Syria. The Center estimates that the Syrian conflict has seen well over a million explosive munitions used. These unexploded munitions leave behind hazards that deeply impact the safety of civilians, access to infrastructure, and agriculture.
Using this text classifier, the Center can more rapidly and accurately share data with demining partners, better preparing their teams for on the ground conditions.

 

Presentation of the Organization

A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; and improving mental health care. The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide.