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People & Parliament
Key words
- Digital toolset
- Text- and datamining
- Political language in European parliaments
Short description
The People & Parliament project is a state of the art digital toolset designed for text- and datamining and natural language processing.
The political-historical research initiative focuses on the use of political language in the national parliaments of ten different European countries – Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden – from 1760 to the present. The Research Software Lab is developing a toolset aimed at the methodological challenges of this research. In addition to software to be built specifically for this research, the researchers will use the text and exploration tool I-Analyzer, also developed by the lab.
To date, eleven corpora have in Western European languages, in XML format, have been incorporated into I-Analyzer and are now available for exploration and downloads of subsets. I-Analyzer has been expanded with:
- Features for downloadable N-grams
- Extra visualizations for frequencies
- Highlight functionality
- Downloadable lists of fragments
- Diachronic word models
- Downloadable word association visualizations
- Visualizations of cluster results
Background
This project has been running from 2021 to the present and is a collaboration between the CDH Research Software Lab and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
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