conflibertR - Inference and Fine-Tuning with 'ConfliBERT' Conflict Text Models

An interface to 'ConfliBERT', a pretrained language model for analyzing text about conflict and political violence (Hu et al. (2022) <doi:10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.400>). Provides functions for named entity recognition, binary and multilabel classification, and question answering, plus tools to fine-tune custom classifiers, compare several base model architectures, and run an interactive active-learning loop for efficiently labeling new data. Models are downloaded from 'Hugging Face' and run through the 'transformers' library for 'Python' via the 'reticulate' package.