The Role of Language Technologies in Digital Humanities (The Case of Parliamentary Debates)

Abstract

The paper focuses on the use case of parliamentary debates as part of Digital Humanities. First, the ParlaMint project is outlined as a flagship initiative of CLARIN ERIC infrastructure. The project makes content from the national and regional parliaments visible, comparable and accessible for policy making and research. Then, the approaches are considered that have been applied in the creation of 31 corpora from national and regional parliaments. Last but not least, the utility of the multilingual resource is discussed.

Keywords

• Parliamentary Debates
• Parlamint
• Comparable Corpora
• Language Technology
• Digital Humanities