In this hands-on workshop, you will explore and compare parliamentary proceedings from 29 European countries and regions with two user-friendly tools: the CLARIN.SI noSketchEngine concordancer and the TEITOK service. These proceedings are available both in the original languages and in machine-translated English. The session will be led by Anna Kryvenko and Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič, researchers from the Digital Humanities Group at the Institute of Contemporary History and the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The ParlaMint family of corpora contains over a billion words from parliamentary sessions across national and regional parliaments in Europe spanning at least 2015–2022. It stands out for its adherence to FAIR principles, comparable design for transnational and translingual research, extensive linguistic annotations, and rich metadata. The corpora metadata includes detailed information on speakers, parties, and speeches, such as names, titles, speakers’ gender, age, roles, and party affiliation and status in relation to the government, political leanings, speech dates, parliamentary sessions, terms, topics, and sentiment.

This workshop is designed to familiarise you with a set of skills for querying the ParlaMint corpora, using both simple search strings and advanced CQL queries. You will also learn how to analyse results alongside speaker and speech metadata, including sentiment and topic analysis added under the ongoing ParlaCAP project. Additionally, you will get a glimpse into how to interpret the results for various digital humanities research questions. 

Workshop programme

The workshop will start with an overview of the ParlaMint corpora, followed by a demonstration of various analytical affordances of noSketchEngine and TEITOK, based on three showcases using the ParlaMint-UK corpus. The final part is dedicated to hands-on work tailored to the participants’ research interests or the replication of a showcase in a corpus of their choice, as well as a discussion of the results and appreciation of user experiences.

Level

This workshop is designed for academics new to corpus linguistic tools, particularly noSketchEngine and TEITOK. The language of instruction is English.

Preparation

Please bring your own laptop. You are encouraged to create a free personal account at https://www.clarin.si/skelog before the workshop.

For whom?

This workshop is open to all interested in joining. It is especially relevant for researchers working with parliamentary data to study socio-cultural topics. The session is limited to 16 participants to ensure sufficient time for hands-on exercises and discussion.

Registration

To sign up, please click the button below and complete the registration form. Register early to secure your place, as spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Admission is free, but in providing these workshops, costs are incurred: registration therefore implies a commitment to attend. If you’re unable to come, please email events@clarin.eu so your spot can be offered to someone else. Thank you for your cooperation.