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Show HN: Explore how nations talk about each other in UN speeches

by vnglst on 12/25/24, 7:45 AM with 2 comments

How it works: Select a country on the globe to explore diplomatic relationships and see who's saying what about whom in the 2024 UN General Assembly Speeches.

How it's made: The project relies heavily on GenAI for several tasks:

- Reading speech documents in multiple languages

- Identifying both direct and indirect mentions of other countries

- Extracting and translating relevant quotations that demonstrate positive or negative sentiment

- Mapping mentions to correct ISO country codes

- Visualization is rendered using d3.js

This is still a work in progress with room for expansion. While currently focused on 2024 speeches, future plans include:

- Analyzing mentions across different years to reveal evolving diplomatic patterns

- Mapping speeches to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to show which nations prioritize specific global challenges

Looking forward to your feedback on this initial version!

  • by hereme888 on 12/26/24, 10:07 AM

    Interesting. I notice that strong nations like Israel or Korea talk positively about the US in terms of joint cooperative efforts, but poor nations talk positively about the US only in the context of giving them more money/resources or power.

  • by sss111 on 12/26/24, 4:51 AM

    Oh wow this is really cool!