The repo is about how to get access to the gold standard corpus that is created and exploited to generate the Global Contention Dataset (GLOCON). Please contact ahurriyetoglu@ku.edu.tr if you would like to use the GLOCON Gold dataset that is created in the scope of Emerging Welfare project.
The annotation manuals can be found here. The final database is on https://glocon.ku.edu.tr/.
A detailed description of the dataset is provided in the following publications:
Hürriyetoğlu, A., Yörük, E., Mutlu, O., Duruşan, F., Yoltar, Ç., Yüret, D., & Gürel, B. (2021). Cross-context news corpus for protest event-related knowledge base construction. Data Intelligence, 3(2), 308-335. URL
Yörük, E., Hürriyetoğlu, A., Duruşan, F., & Yoltar, Ç. (2021). Random Sampling in Corpus Design: Cross-Context Generalizability in Automated Multicountry Protest Event Collection. American Behavioral Scientist, 00027642211021630. URL
Hürriyetoğlu A., Yörük E., Yüret D., Mutlu O., Yoltar Ç., Duruşan F., Gürel B. (2020). Cross-context News Corpus for Protest Events related Knowledge Base Construction. Automatic Knowledge Base Construction Conference. URL
Hürriyetoğlu A., Zavarella V., Tanev H., Yörük E., Safaya A., and Mutlu O. (2020) Automated extraction of socio-political events from news (AESPEN): Workshop and shared task report. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News, pages 1{6, Marseille, France, May 2020. EuropeanLanguage Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 979-10-95546-50-4. URL
Hürriyetoğlu A., Yörük E., Yüret D., Yoltar Ç., , Gürel B., Duruşan F., Mutlu O., and Akdemir A. (2019) Overview of clef 2019 lab protestnews: Extracting protests from news in a cross-context setting. In Fabio Crestani, Martin Braschler, Jacques Savoy, Andreas Rauber, Henning Müller, David E. Losada, Gundula Heinatz Burki, Linda Cappellato, and Nicola Ferro, editors, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, pages 425{432, Cham, 2019b. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-28577-7. URL
Hürriyetoğlu A., Yörük E., Yüret D., Yoltar Ç., , Gürel B., Duruşan F., and Mutlu O., (2019). A task set proposal for automatic protest information collection across multiple countries. In Leif Azzopardi, Benno Stein, Norbert Fuhr, Philipp Mayr, Claudia Hau, and Djoerd Hiemstra, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval, pages 316{323, Cham, 2019a. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-15719-7. URL