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Parliament speech has always been in the center of the humanitarian and societal interest with its influential language and content for the policy making as well as for the social and political environment. There are many ongoing initiatives on European and national levels for compiling digital collections of parliament data, varying from creation of parliament-focused corpora to task-oriented ones. Examples of the first kind are: EuroParl; the Dutch PoliMedia project on political debates; European Parliament Interpretation Corpus (EPIC); UK parliamentary proceedings, including nearly every speech given in the British Parliament from 1803-2005; speech data from the Czech parliament; and the Talk of Norway corpus, a collection of proceedings from the Norwegian parliament. Examples of the second kind are: War in Parliament (WIP); the language of ethnic conflict in Latvian parliamentary debates; linking the historical and contemporary political records (LIPARM), among many others.
The availability of big parliamentary multimodal data in digitized form poses a number of problems, related to its proper archiving, structuring, synchronizing, visualizing. It is not a trivial task to search in such data, to extract relevant information, to make observations on specific topics. Thus, adequate approaches are required for its focused, easy and efficient usage from various perspectives, such as political sciences, sociology, history, psychology, etc. and also from the perspective of multilinguality.
CLARIN-PLUS Workshop "Working with Parliamentary Records" aims to discover the ways in which NLP technology, developed within CLARIN, would be helpful for curating parliament records and for answering research questions in the field of Digital Humanities given in by parliamentary datasets. One such successful initiative was the Talk of Europe – Travelling CLARIN Campus (ToE-TCC) project, within which the EU parliament debates have been presented as Linked Open Data. At the workshop, we will prepare an overview of the recent and on-going national and international projects and collections of parliamentary records. In addition to talks, there will be demonstrations, discussions and hands-on sessions.
This workshop took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from Monday, 27 March, to Wednesday, 29 March, 2017 and is the third in a series of four as part of the CLARIN-PLUS project. It aims to demonstrate the application strength of language and speech technology in the domain of the humanities and social sciences beyond the field of linguistics.
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Invited contributions
Linking Parliamentary Data: an event perspective
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Parliamentary proceedings in Italian Senate. Current management and perspectives
Apr 25, 2017
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Presentations by the participants
The Polish Parliamentary Corpus
Apr 25, 2017
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PoliticalMashup, collect all parliamentary proceedings of all European states i...
Apr 25, 2017
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Ireland in the eyes of the UK Parliament
Apr 25, 2017
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Parliamentary Records as Data for Linguistic Discourse Studies
Apr 25, 2017
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The German Political Speeches Corpus – Extraction and Visualization of Key Terms...
Apr 25, 2017
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Greek Parliamentary Speech in the clarin:el repository
Apr 25, 2017
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Methods and Techniques for the Analysis of Parliamentary Records: Two Case Studi...
Apr 25, 2017
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Dealing with huge amounts of real-life parliamentary data and fixing potholes al...
Apr 25, 2017
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Welcome - introduction to CLARIN
May 16, 2017
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Support for research with parliamentary data
May 16, 2017
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'European Identity' presented in Bulgarian political speeches
Sep 04, 2019
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Slovenian parliamentary corpus SlovParl
Sep 04, 2019
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“These results must come with a disclaimer”. On some perils and pitfalls in wor...
Sep 04, 2019
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Governing science through democratic institutions
Sep 04, 2019
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PqViz - Rendering Maltese Parliamentary Questions more accessible to the Public
Sep 04, 2019
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Analysing Parliamentary Data in Hungarian
Sep 04, 2019
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Can we learn about the topics a specific Parliament discussed?
Sep 04, 2019
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Using the Greek parliamentary speech corpus for the study of aggressive politica...
Sep 04, 2019
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Linking cultural heritage collections to parliamentary data - The PoliMedia Proj...
Sep 04, 2019
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Finding latent dimensions in Polish parliamentary debates
Sep 04, 2019
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Semantic Annotation and Analysis of the UK Hansard Record
Sep 04, 2019
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The Corpus of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Sessions
Sep 04, 2019
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Development of EU COST proposal ParliamentPortal
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Interviews
Interviews
May 16, 2017
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