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.
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2024.lrec-main.716
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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8173–8183
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Karolina Zaczynska, Peter Bourgonje, and Manfred Stede. 2024. How Diplomats Dispute: The UN Security Council Conflict Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 8173–8183, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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