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Talk of Europe - Linking European parliament proceedings Max Kemman and Astrid van AggelenTRANSCRIPT
Talk of EuropeLinking European Parliament Proceedings
Astrid van Aggelen - VU University AmsterdamMax Kemman (@MaxJ_K) - Erasmus University Rotterdam
About the project
● Astrid van Aggelen● Laura Hollink
● Max Kemman● Martijn Kleppe● Henri Beunders
● Marnix van Berchum
● Johan Oomen● Jaap Blom
● Steven Krauwer● Jan Odijk
● 2014-2015● Funded by CLARIN-NL & CLARIN
ERIC
Primary goals
plenary sessions 1996 - (present)● Represent in Resource Description
Framework
Primary goals
plenary sessions 1996 - (present)● Publish as linked open data
Primary goals
plenary sessions 1996 - (present)● Promote
applications
The European Parliament
sessionsessionDay
agendaItemspeech
The European Parliament
Plenary sessions are NOT
● strictly role-based● mirror of law-making● interactive
Datasets
1. Europarl debate registrydate, debates, speakers, speeches
who said what in which debate on which day?
Data model
Data model
Enriching the data (1)
?What is a member’s political background?
Datasets
● Europarl debate registrydebates, speakers, speeches
● Europarl MEP databaseparties, committee, country, delegation
Data model
Data model
Data model
Enriching the data (2)
How to categorise debates?
?
Enriching the data (2)● Foreign Affairs● Human Rights● Security and Defence● Development● International Trade● Budgets● Budgetary Control● Economic and Monetary Affairs● Employment and Social Affairs● Environment, Public Health and Food Safety● Industry, Research and Energy● Internal Market and Consumer Protection● Transport and Tourism● Regional Development● Agriculture and Rural Development● Fisheries● Culture and Education● Legal Affairs● Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs● Constitutional Affairs● Women's Rights and Gender Equality● Petitions
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Datasets
● Europarl debate registrydebates, speakers, speeches, texts*
● Europarl MEP databaseparty, committee, country, delegation
● Europarl report registrycommittee / theme
Data model
Data model
Enriching the data (3)
In which role is this person speaking?
Enriching the data (3)
Heuristic processing!
Ideas for applications
● data enrichment:geographical dataset, encyclopedia, voting info (Eur-Lex)
● applications: topic preference of speakers by country / geography / party
cross-lingual language use
sentiment analysis
Creative camp
● Bring together developers and academic researchers from across Europe
● Promoting inventive use of the EP dataset, exploiting web and natural language processing techniques to add new knowledge and functionality to the dataset
● 6-10 October 2014 at NISV (Hilversum, The Netherlands)
● Submissions due: Friday 20 June
www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp
More info
General info: www.talkofeurope.eu
Creative camp: www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp/
Astrid [email protected]
Max [email protected] / @MaxJ_K