About
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.
Videos
Invited contributions

Parliamentary proceedings in Italian Senate. Current management and perspectives
Apr 25, 2017
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Linking Parliamentary Data: an event perspective
Apr 25, 2017
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Presentations by the participants

Parliamentary Records as Data for Linguistic Discourse Studies
Apr 25, 2017
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954 views

Development of EU COST proposal ParliamentPortal
Sep 4, 2019
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The Polish Parliamentary Corpus
Apr 25, 2017
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956 views

Finding latent dimensions in Polish parliamentary debates
Sep 4, 2019
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17 views

Slovenian parliamentary corpus SlovParl
Sep 4, 2019
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17 views

The Corpus of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Sessions
Sep 4, 2019
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11 views

Support for research with parliamentary data
May 16, 2017
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Linking cultural heritage collections to parliamentary data - The PoliMedia Proj...
Sep 4, 2019
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18 views

Can we learn about the topics a specific Parliament discussed?
Sep 4, 2019
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16 views

Methods and Techniques for the Analysis of Parliamentary Records: Two Case Studi...
Apr 25, 2017
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929 views

The German Political Speeches Corpus – Extraction and Visualization of Key Terms...
Apr 25, 2017
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1077 views

Greek Parliamentary Speech in the clarin:el repository
Apr 25, 2017
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955 views

“These results must come with a disclaimer”. On some perils and pitfalls in wor...
Sep 4, 2019
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21 views

Ireland in the eyes of the UK Parliament
Apr 25, 2017
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975 views

Governing science through democratic institutions
Sep 4, 2019
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18 views

Semantic Annotation and Analysis of the UK Hansard Record
Sep 4, 2019
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18 views

Dealing with huge amounts of real-life parliamentary data and fixing potholes al...
Apr 25, 2017
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1078 views

'European Identity' presented in Bulgarian political speeches
Sep 4, 2019
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16 views

PoliticalMashup, collect all parliamentary proceedings of all European states i...
Apr 25, 2017
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928 views

Using the Greek parliamentary speech corpus for the study of aggressive politica...
Sep 4, 2019
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23 views

Welcome - introduction to CLARIN
May 16, 2017
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PqViz - Rendering Maltese Parliamentary Questions more accessible to the Public
Sep 4, 2019
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17 views

Analysing Parliamentary Data in Hungarian
Sep 4, 2019
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19 views
Interviews

Interviews
May 16, 2017
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