Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda

Exemelification of Parliamentary Debates

Parliamentary debates are an interesting domain to apply state-of-the-art information retrieval technology. Parliamentary debates are highly structured transcripts of meetings of politicians in parliament. These debates are an important part of the cultural heritage of countries; they are often free of copy-right; citizens often have a legal right to inspect them; and several countries make gre...

Modelling argumentation in parliamentary debates

In this paper we apply the information state update (ISU) machinery to tracking and understanding the argumentative behaviour of participants in a parliamentary debate in order to predict its outcome. We propose to use the ISU approach to model the arguments of the debaters and the support/attack links between them as part of the formal representations of a participant’s information state. We f...

Televised Debates in Parliamentary Democracies

Bringing parliamentary debates to the Semantic Web

An analysis of parliamentary debates and media resources that cover them can provide insight into the political climate of a country. Although debates are now regularly published on official government portals, their analysis remains a cumbersome and challenging task for historians and political scientists. One of the main tasks of the PoliMedia project is to allow easy crossmedia comparisons a...

Advanced Information Access to Parliamentary Debates

Parliamentary debates are highly structured transcripts of meetings of politicians in parliament. These debates are an important part of the cultural heritage of many countries; they are often free of copy-right; citizens often have a legal right to inspect them; and several countries make great effort to digitize their entire historical collection and make it available to the general public. T...