Extracting Knowledge from Parliamentary Debates for Studying Political Culture and Language

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2022-08-11

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en

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10
70-79

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CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 3184

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This paper presents knowledge extraction and natural language processing methods used to enrich the knowledge graph of the plenary debates (textual transcripts of speeches) of the Parliament of Finland. This knowledge graph includes some 960 000 speeches (1907–2021) interlinked with a prosopographical knowledge graph about the politicians. A recent subset of the speeches was used to extract named entities and topical keywords for semantic searching and browsing the data and for data analysis. The process is based on linguistic analysis, named entity linking, and automatic subject indexing. The results were included into the ParliamentSampo knowledge graph in a SPARQL endpoint. This data can be used for studying parliamentary language and culture in Digital Humanities research and for developing applications, such as the ParliamentSampo portal.

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Funding Information: Acknowledgements Our work is part of the Semantic Parliament project18, funded by the Academy of Finland and is also related to the EU project InTaVia19 and the EU COST action Nexus Linguarum20. The project uses the computing resources of the CSC – IT Center for Science. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. | openaire: EC/H2020/101004825/EU//InTaVia

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digital humanities, linked data, natural language processing, parliamentary studies

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Tamper, M, Leal, R, Sinikallio, L, Leskinen, P, Tuominen, J & Hyvönen, E 2022, ' Extracting Knowledge from Parliamentary Debates for Studying Political Culture and Language ', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3184, pp. 70-79 . < http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3184/TEXT2KG_Paper_5.pdf >