Human Rights Texts: Converting Human Rights Primary Source Documents into Data.

ABSTRACT: We introduce and make publicly available a large corpus of digitized primary source human rights documents which are published annually by monitoring agencies that include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and the United States Department of State. In addition to the digitized text, we also make available and describe document-term matrices, which are datasets that systematically organize the word counts from each unique document by each unique term within the corpus of human rights documents. To contextualize the importance of this corpus, we describe the development of coding procedures in the human rights community and several existing categorical indicators that have been created by human coding of the human rights documents contained in

SUBMITTER: Fariss CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4587949 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature