Multi-aspect Multilingual and Cross-lingual Parliamentary Speech Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01054v2
• Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:02 GMT
• Title: Multi-aspect Multilingual and Cross-lingual Parliamentary Speech Analysis
• Authors: Kristian Miok, Encarnacion Hidalgo-Tenorio, Petya Osenova, Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro and Marko Robnik-Sikonja
• Abstract summary: We apply advanced NLP methods to a joint and comparative analysis of six national parliaments between 2017 and 2020. We analyze emotions and sentiment in the transcripts from the ParlaMint dataset collection. The results show some commonalities and many surprising differences among the analyzed countries.
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• Abstract: Parliamentary and legislative debate transcripts provide informative insight into elected politicians' opinions, positions, and policy preferences. They are interesting for political and social sciences as well as linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) research. While existing research studied individual parliaments, we apply advanced NLP methods to a joint and comparative analysis of six national parliaments (Bulgarian, Czech, French, Slovene, Spanish, and United Kingdom) between 2017 and 2020. We analyze emotions and sentiment in the transcripts from the ParlaMint dataset collection and assess if the age, gender, and political orientation of speakers can be detected from their speeches. The results show some commonalities and many surprising differences among the analyzed countries.

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