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<h2>Genocide Transcript Corpus (GTC)</h2>The Genocide Transcript Corpus (GTC) provides transcript data from three different genocide tribunals: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
GTC Version 2 - June 2023
Besides meta data regarding the respective tribunal and transcript annotation this version also includes the annotation of text segments that inlude potentially traumatic witness experiences.
The updated version of the GTC contains 52,845 text segments of a total of 90 transcripts that can be attributed to an individual person or court proceedings. The final data set includes the following variables:
- Case information: tribunal, case number, accused
- Transcript information: document ID, url-link to the original transcript, date
- Witness information: witness name or pseudonym, number of witnesses per transcript
- Text information: speaker (e.g., Witness, LawyerQA), text, trauma label
- Annotation information: annotation ID, start ID, and document ID
Codebook V2
| Variable Name | Description |
|---|---|
| tribunal | Name of the tribunal (ICTY, ICTR, or ECCC) |
| id_transcript | Document/transcript number/ID |
| case | Case number/ID |
| accused | Name of the accused |
| date | Date of the respective trial day corresponding to the transcript |
| text | Transcript segment separated by speaker |
| trauma | Potentially trauma-related content: <br> <ul> <li>not containing trauma-related content = 0</li> <li>containing trauma-related content = 1</li> </ul> |
| role | Legal role of the person speaking: <br> <ul> <li>Witness</li> <li>Accused</li> <li>JudgeProc (Judge talking about procedural matters)</li> <li>JudgeQA (Judge examining a witness</li> <li>LawyerProc (Lawyer talking about procedural matters)</li> <li>LawyerQA (Lawyer examining a witness</li> <li>Proceedings (procedural matters)</li> </ul> |
| witnesses | Names or pseudonyms of witnesses |
| n_witnesses | Number of witnesses examined in the hearing |
| start | Starting point of the respective segment annotation (useful for ordering the data chronologically) |
| id_annotation | Annotation ID of the segment |
| id_document | Document ID in reference to the annotation process |
| url | Link to transcript |
Please refer to the corresponding paper for further context, including details on the labeling process:
Miriam Schirmer, Isaac Misael Olguín Nolasco, Edoardo Mosca, Shanshan Xu, and Jürgen Pfeffer. 2023. Uncovering Trauma in Genocide Tribunals: An NLP Approach Using the Genocide Transcript Corpus. In Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023), June 19–23, 2023, Braga, Portugal. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594536.3595147
GTC Version 1 - June 2022
All samples were labeled according to whether they contain a witness’s description of experienced violence. Violence in this context includes accounts of experienced torture, interrogation, death, beating, psychological violence, experienced military attacks, destruction of villages, and looting.
The transcript data was divided into equally large text chunks of 250 words each. Numbers and punctuation were removed.
Codebook V1
| Variable Name | Description |
|---|---|
| paragraph | A text passage from a genocide tribunal transcript (250 words each). |
| label | Violence-related content: <br> <ul> <li>not containing violence = 0</li> <li>containing violence = 1</li> </ul> |
| tribunal | The specific tribunal the transcript data is from: <br> <ul> <li>ECCC = 1</li> <li>ICTY = 2</li> <li>ICTR = 3 </li> </ul> |
| witness | The witness's name or a pseudonym. |
| document | The document number / ID. |
| case | The case number / ID. |
| date | The trial date. |
General Note: All of the used transcripts are openly accessible on the respective courts' websites.