Despite the recognized importance of witness testimony in addressing systematic violence and human rights violations, reflected in the participation of large numbers of witnesses in international legal processes, establishing facts based on oral testimonies in international criminal tribunals remains a contentious matter. 
In this research I develop a new model for assessing judicial attention to and engagement with testimonial narratives, in particular of victims of sexual violence, by conceptualizing the testimonies as “textual datasets.”  Harnessing the large number of testimonies in international criminal trials, I use topic modeling in order to explore latent themes and semantic fields that could benefit the legal process and its critical scholarly appreciation.