Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2021: ‘Parliamentary Debates in COVID Times’
The Project, Organised by the University of Helsinki, the online hackathon ‘Parliamentary Debates in COVID Times’ was a short, intense project that took place from
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Methodology, As their main data source, the team used the ParlaMint 2.1 dataset, a multilingual set of uniformly annotated corpora of parliamentary proceedings.
In order to identify which keywords occurred across all four countries, and which were country-specific, the hackathon team then manually selected the
‘It was really nice to have such a well-structured dataset of this size. It’s great that the dataset spans several years and that it’s well-annotated,, btn-arrow-circle, image-right
Outcome, The results showed that the majority of the top fifty keywords for all countries were related to the pandemic. In addition, there was a strong overlap
The collocation networks offered useful insight into the relationship between key terms in the parliamentary discussions, especially when viewed again
CLARIN Tools and Resources, The project was based on the recently published ParlaMint 2.1 dataset. The sessions in the corpora are marked as either belonging to the COVID-19 peri
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Views on CLARIN, ‘I really like the comparative perspective that the ParlaMint dataset offers, making it possible to compare different national parliaments. It would b
For a comprehensive discussion of the hackathon, see the blog post, btn-arrow-circle, Heldig.jpg, image-left
To watch a video about the hackathon, go to CLARIN Café, btn-arrow-circle, CLARINcafe.png, image-left
A linguistically marked-up version of the corpus is available here.
For a recently published, multimedia tutorial on how to conduct high-quali
Isabella Calabretta, Digital Product Manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Courtney Dalton, MLIS student at Simmons University, Boston