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Automating Ciri Ratings Of Human Rights Reports Using Gate, Joshua M. Joiner
Automating Ciri Ratings Of Human Rights Reports Using Gate, Joshua M. Joiner
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis involves parsing document-based reports from the United States Human Rights Reports and rating the human practices for various countries based on the CIRI (Cingranelli-Richards) Human Rights Data Project dataset. The United States Human Rights Reports are annual reports that cover internationally recognized human rights practices regarding individual, civil, political, and worker rights. Students, scholars, policymakers, and analysts used the CIRI data for practical and research purposes. CIRI analyzed the annual reports from 1981 to 2011 and then stopped releasing the dataset for any further years, but a possible reason is due to the manual process of scouring the …