talk of europe – linking european parliament proceedings

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?

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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 a.e.van.aggelen@vu.nl

Max kemman@eshcc.eur.nl / @MaxJ_K