This tool identifies statements of potentially traumatic experiences in witness accounts for the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
1. Find a transcript from the ICC, the ICTR, the ICTY, or the ECCC. The buttons below provide links to the court websites where transcripts are publicly accessible.
2. Insert the transcript link into the designated field.
3. Choose whether you would like to download a CSV file containing segmented data from the transcript.
4. By clicking 'Detect Trauma', the transcript will be processed. Various metrics associated with the transcript, such as the share of trauma-related statements, will be displayed.
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GENTRAC stands for Genocide Trauma Tracing Tool.
It is an open-access web-based tool built to interactively detect and analyze potentially traumatic content in witness statements of genocide and mass atrocity trials.
GENTRAC is based on the American Psychological Association (APA)'s definition of psychological trauma. This encompasses experiences of "exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence," that can be directly encountered or witnessed. It also includes instances where individuals "learn that the traumatic event(s) occurred to a close family member or close friend."
GENTRAC does not intend to provide psychological diagnoses. Drawing
conclusions about the mental health of witnesses from court transcripts alone is impossible without additional information about their psychological well-being or previous diagnoses.
We utilize a publicly available BERT-based model for trauma detection in the context of genocide. This model has been trained on various transcripts from the ICC, the ICTR, the ICTY, and the ECCC. Therefore, it is sensitive to context particularly inherent to international criminal tribunals. When detecting trauma, this model has achieved an accuracy of roughly 90%.
If you are interested in this project and would like to read more on our understanding of trauma and model details, please refer to our article on Uncovering Trauma in Genocide Tribunals.