GLOCON Database: Design Decisions and User Manual (v1.0)
Ali H\"urriyeto\u{g}lu, Osman Mutlu, F{\i}rat Duru\c{s}an, Erdem, Y\"or\"uk

TL;DR
GLOCON is a multilingual database of contentious events extracted from news sources, created through automated processing and expert annotation, facilitating research in event analysis across countries.
Contribution
This paper introduces the GLOCON database, detailing its design decisions, creation process, and user manual, providing a valuable resource for event analysis research.
Findings
Automated extraction of contentious events from multilingual news sources.
Use of a gold standard corpus for high-quality annotation.
Comprehensive documentation for database usage.
Abstract
GLOCON is a database of contentious events automatically extracted from national news sources from various countries in multiple languages. National news sources are utilized, and complete news archives are processed to create an event list for each source. Automation is achieved using a gold standard corpus sampled randomly from complete news archives (Y\"or\"uk et al. 2022) and all annotated by at least two domain experts based on the event definition provided in Duru\c{s}an et al. (2022).
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Taxonomy
TopicsComputational and Text Analysis Methods · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Misinformation and Its Impacts
