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Christopher J Fariss¹, Fridolin J Linder¹, Zachary M Jones¹

¹Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, United States of America.

|September 30, 2015

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We released a new dataset of digitized human rights documents from major organizations. This corpus, with document-term matrices, aids research into evolving human rights practices and reporting.

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Area of Science:

Social Sciences
Political Science
International Relations

Background:

Human rights monitoring relies on extensive documentation.
Existing datasets often require manual coding, which is time-consuming.
Analyzing trends in human rights reporting is crucial for understanding global practices.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel, large-scale corpus of digitized primary source human rights documents.
To provide accompanying document-term matrices for computational analysis.
To facilitate scholarly research on the evolution of human rights practices and reporting.

Main Methods:

Digitization of primary source human rights documents from key monitoring agencies.
Creation of document-term matrices to quantify word frequencies across the corpus.
Review of existing human rights coding procedures and categorical indicators.

Main Results:

A publicly available, comprehensive corpus of digitized human rights documents.
Associated document-term matrices enabling quantitative analysis.
Contextualization of the corpus within the history of human rights data collection.

Conclusions:

The new corpus and datasets offer powerful tools for analyzing human rights trends.
Computational methods can complement traditional human coding in human rights research.
Future work will focus on dataset maintenance, updates, and accessibility.