用新闻语义分析预测玻利维亚路障,比纯数据模型更准。
From Seasonality to Semantics: Benchmarking a Hybrid Probabilistic Forecasting System for Roadblocks in Bolivia

- 融合时间序列与新闻语义分析,捕捉冲突前兆信号。
- 在H+1时达到0.677的AUC-ROC,Brier分数降低10.9%。
- 适合交通风险管理和社会事件预警的决策者使用。
玻利维亚的路障现象是具有重大经济影响的社会冲突,每年造成的损失相当于全国GDP的4%。尽管频繁发生,当地仍缺乏预测系统支持物流决策。本文提出一种混合概率预测系统,结合时间序列分解(Prophet)与自然语言处理技术,分析六年新闻语料。通过向量语义嵌入和零样本分类模型,捕捉路障发生前的话语升级信号。采用扩展滚动验证方案,在1,762天内评估七个预测时域(H+1至H+7),对比七种内部配置与四种外部基准(包括SARIMA和LightGBM)。结果表明,混合模型(Prophet + NLP,C6)显著优于纯统计模型,在H+1时达到0.677的AUC-ROC,Brier Score较基线模型(0.247)降低10.9%至0.220,并在所有时域均保持统计显著性(p < 0.02)。研究证明,语义新闻信号能识别历史数据未捕捉到的社会紧张峰值,为关键运输走廊的风险管理提供有效技术工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Roadblocks in Bolivia are a social conflict phenomenon with devastating economic impacts, estimated at losses equivalent to 4% of the national Gross Domestic Product. Despite their recurrence and impact, there is a lack of local predictive systems to anticipate these events for logistical decision-making. This paper presents a hybrid probabilistic forecasting system that integrates time series decomposition (Prophet) with natural language processing (NLP) techniques applied to a six-year corpus of Bolivian news coverage. The methodology employs vector semantic embeddings and zero-shot classification models to capture signals of discursive escalation prior to the materialization of the roadblocks. Using an expanding walk-forward validation scheme applied over 1,762 days and seven forecasting horizons (H+1 to H+7), seven internal configurations and four external benchmarks were compared, including SARIMA and LightGBM. The results demonstrate that the hybrid configuration (Prophet + NLP, C6) consistently outperforms purely statistical models, achieving an AUC-ROC of 0.677 at H+1 and reducing the Brier Score by 10.9% relative to the baseline temporal model (0.220 vs. 0.247), maintaining a statistically significant error reduction across all evaluated horizons ($p < 0.02$). This research validates that the integration of semantic news signals allows for the detection of social tension peaks not captured by historical inertia, providing a technical tool for risk management in critical transport corridors.
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