United Nations General Debate Corpus 1946-2022

Every year since 1946, representatives of the UN member states gather at the annual sessions of the United Nations General Assembly. The centrepiece of each session is the General Debate. This is a forum at which leaders and other senior officials deliver statements that present their government’s perspective on the major issues in world politics. These statements are akin to the annual legislative state-of-the-union addresses in domestic politics. See more from the UN here. This dataset, the UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC), introduces the corpus of transcripts of General Debate statements from 1946 (Session 1) to 2022 (Session 77). Additional information is available from here.

自1946年起，联合国会员国代表每年都会齐聚联合国大会年度会议。每届会议的核心环节为一般性辩论（General Debate）：该论坛为各国领导人及高级官员提供平台，使其可发表声明，阐述本国政府对于全球政治重大议题的立场。此类声明与国内政治中的年度国情咨文演讲类似。更多相关内容可参阅联合国官方渠道此处。本数据集为联合国大会辩论语料库（UN General Debate Corpus, UNGDC），收录了1946年（第1届大会）至2022年（第77届大会）的一般性辩论发言誊本语料。更多附加信息可从此处获取。