Parliamentary TA in Portugal

Argumentation Mining in Parliamentary Discourse

We examine whether using frame choices in forum statements can help us identify framing strategies in parliamentary discourse. In this analysis, we show how features based on embedding representations can improve discovering various frames in argumentative political speech. Given the complex nature of the parliamentary discourse, the initial results that are presented here are promising. We fur...

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...

Government Turnover in Parliamentary Democracies

In this paper we consider a dynamic model of government formation and termination in parliamentary democracies that accounts for the following phenomena: (1) Cabinet terminations due to replacement or early election (2) Cabinet reshuf°es (3) Minority and Surplus governments; (4) the relative instability of minority governments. JEL classi ̄cation: D72, H19, C73.

Parliamentary Voting Procedures in Comparison

Increasingly, scholars of legislative politics propose comparative analyses of parliamentary voting behavior across different countries and parliaments. Yet parliamentary voting procedures differ dramatically across parliamentary chambers and ignoring these differences may, in the extreme, lead to meaningless comparisons. In this paper we present a first glimpse at a comprehensive data collecti...

Televised Debates in Parliamentary Democracies