UNSC-NE: A Named Entity Extension to the UN Security Council Debates Corpus

Abstract

We present the Named Entity (NE) add-on to the previously published United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Debates corpus (Schoenfeld, Eckhard, Patz, Meegdenburg, & Pires, 2019). Starting from the argument that the annotated classes in Named Entity Recognition (NER) pipelines offer a tagset that is too limited for relevant research questions in political science, we employ Named Entity Linking (NEL), using DBpedia-spotlight to produce the UNSC-NE corpus add-on. The validity of the tagging and the potential for future research are then discussed in the context of UNSC debates on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).