| Challenge: | Until now, there has been little work on how to formalize conflicts in a diplomatic setting. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of 87 UNSC speeches that are annotated for conflicts and demonstrate the difficulty when dealing with diplomatic language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method demonstrates that diplomatic language is complex and often implicit along various dimensions. |
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