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How Diplomats Dispute: The UN Security Council Conflict Corpus
Karolina Zaczynska, Peter Bourgonje, Manfred Stede
Abstract
We investigate disputes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by studying the linguistic means of expressing conflicts. As a result, we present the UNSC Conflict Corpus (UNSCon), a collection of 87 UNSC speeches that are annotated for conflicts. We explain and motivate our annotation scheme and report on a series of experiments for automatic conflict classification. Further, we demonstrate the difficulty when dealing with diplomatic language - which is highly complex and often implicit along various dimensions - by providing corpus examples, readability scores, and classification results.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{zaczynska-etal-2024-diplomats,
title = "How Diplomats Dispute: The {UN} Security Council Conflict Corpus",
author = "Zaczynska, Karolina and
Bourgonje, Peter and
Stede, Manfred",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.716/",
pages = "8173--8183"
}