CLARIN-PLUS workshop “Working with Parliamentary Records”
Date: 27-29 March 2017
Venue: Sofia City Hotel (
Host: IICT-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Programme
Day 1: Monday 27 March
10:00-12:00Focus group session
Willemien Sanders & DarjaFišer
12:00-13:30 Lunch
14:00-14:15 Welcome - introduction to CLARIN
Franciska de Jong
14:15-14:30 Support for research with parliamentary data
DarjaFišer
14:30-15:30 Invited contribution 1: Linking Parliamentary Data: an event perspective
Laura Hollink (CWI, The Netherlands)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:20 Presentations by participants: Curators and NLP experts
16:00-16:10'European Identity' presented in Bulgarian political speeches
IvankaMavrodieva
16:10-16:20The Polish Parliamentary Corpus
MaciejOgrodniczuk
16:20-16:30Slovenian parliamentary corpus SlovParl
Andrej Pančur
16:30-16:40“These results must come with a disclaimer”. On some perils and
pitfalls in working with 'verbatim' parliamentary records.
Roberto La Rocca
16:40-16:50Governing science through democratic institutions
Kristina Petkova
16:50-17:00PoliticalMashup, collect all parliamentary proceedings of all
European states inside one system
Maarten Marx
17:00-17:10PqViz - Rendering Maltese Parliamentary Questions more accessible
to the Public
Joel Azzopardi
17:10-17:20Ireland in the eyes of the UK Parliament
Stefano Menini
17:20-18:00Questions, discussion on obstacles, gaps and requirements 1
(chair: Willemien Sanders)
Day 2: Tuesday 28 March
09:00-10:00Invited contribution 2: The preparation and analysis of corpora of parliamentary
debates. Ideas for making things sustainable
Andreas Blätte (UniDuisberg, Germany)
10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:30-12:00Hands-on session 1
Laura Hollink
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:10Invited contribution 3: Parliamentary proceedings in Italian Senate. Current
management and perspectives
Manuela Ruisi (Italian Senate)
14:10-15:10Presentations by participants: SSH researchers
14:10-14:20Parliamentary Records as Data for Linguistic Discourse Studies
EeroVoutilainen
14:20-14:30Analysing Parliamentary Data in Hungarian
CsabaMolnár and IstvanMicsinai
14:30-14:40Can we learn about the topics a specific Parliament discussed?
Elena Tarasheva
14:40-14:50Using the Greek parliamentary speech corpus for the study of
aggressive political discourse
MarianthiGeorgalidou
14:50-15:00Linking cultural heritage collections to parliamentary data - The
PoliMedia Project
MartijnKleppe
15:00-15:10Finding latent dimensions in Polish parliamentary debates
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
15:10-15:30Questions, discussion on obstacles, gaps and requirements 2
(chair: Andreas Blätte)
15:30-15:50Coffee break
15:50-16:30Presentationsdemonstrations by participants: NLP/ SSH experts
15:50-16:00 Semantic Annotation and Analysis of the UK Hansard
Record
Fraser Dallachy
16:00-16:10The German Political Speeches Corpus – Extraction and
Visualization of Key Terms
Adrien Barbaresi
16:10-16:20Greek Parliamentary Speech in the clarin:el repository
Katerina Frantzi
16:20-16:30The Corpus of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Sessions
Roberts Darģis and IlzeAuziņa
16:30-16:40Methods and Techniques for the Analysis of Parliamentary Records:
Two Case Studies on Italian
Simonetta Montemagni
16:40-16:50Dealing with huge amounts of real-life parliamentary data and fixing potholes along the way
Filip Dobranić
16:40-17:00Questions, discussion on obstacles, gaps and requirements 3
(chair: Franciska de Jong)
17:00-17:30Discussion: Development of EU COST proposal ParliamentPortal
Margit van der Steen
Day 3: Wednesday 29 March
09:00-11:00Hands-on session 2
Andreas Blätte
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:30Workshop findings, agenda for the next steps
DarjaFišer
12:30-13:30Lunch