Abstract
This paper explores the automatic knowledge extraction of formal institutional design - norms, rules, and actors - from international agreements. The focus was to analyze the relationship between the visibility and centrality of actors in the formal institutional design in regulating critical aspects of cultural heritage relations. The developed tool utilizes techniques such as collecting legal documents, annotating them with Institutional Grammar, and using graph analysis to explore the formal institutional design. The system was tested against the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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The source code of our analysis: https://github.com/institutional-grammar-pl.
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The expert is Hanna Schreiber.
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The model is used in the tagger’s repository (https://github.com/institutional-grammar-pl/ig-tagger) and the experiments are included in a separate repository: https://github.com/institutional-grammar-pl/sentence-types.
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The research was funded by the Centre for Priority Research Area Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of Warsaw University of Technology within the Excellence Initiative: Research University (IDUB) program (grant no 1820/27/Z01/ POB2/2021), by the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, and also by the European Union under the Horizon Europe grant OMINO (grant no 101086321).
Hanna Schreiber and Bartosz Pieliński wish to acknowledge that their contribution to this paper was carried out within the framework of the research grant Sonata 15, “Between the heritage of the world and the heritage of humanity: researching international heritage regimes through the prism of Elinor Ostrom’s IAD framework," 2019/35/D/HS5/04247 financed by the National Science Centre (Poland).
We want to thank many Students for their work under the guidance of Anna Wróblewska and Bartosz Pieliński on Institutional Grammar taggers and preliminary ideas of the system (e.g. [25]), which we modified and extended further.
We also thank the anonymous reviewers and the program committee for their helpful comments.
(Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor European Research Executive Agency can be held responsible for them.)
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Wróblewska, A. et al. (2023). Automating the Analysis of Institutional Design in International Agreements. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14075. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36024-4_5
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