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Plenary Debates of the Parliament of Finland as Linked Open Data and in Parla-CLARIN Markup

Authors Laura Sinikallio , Senka Drobac , Minna Tamper , Rafael Leal , Mikko Koho , Jouni Tuominen , Matti La Mela , Eero Hyvönen

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Laura Sinikallio
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland
Senka Drobac
  • Department of Computer Science, SeCo Research Group, Aalto University, Finland
Minna Tamper
  • Department of Computer Science, SeCo Research Group, Aalto University, Finland
Rafael Leal
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Koho
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jouni Tuominen
  • Aalto University, Finland
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland
Matti La Mela
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eero Hyvönen
  • Aalto University, Finland
  • HELDIG Centre for Digital Humanities, SeCo Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ari Apilo, Sari Wilenius, and Päivikki Karhula of PoF for providing material for the project. Our work was funded by the Academy of Finland as part of the Semantic Parliament project, the EU project InTaVia: In/Tangible European Heritage, and is related to the COST action NexusLinguarum on linguistic data science. CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland, provided computational resources for the work.

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Laura Sinikallio, Senka Drobac, Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Matti La Mela, and Eero Hyvönen. Plenary Debates of the Parliament of Finland as Linked Open Data and in Parla-CLARIN Markup. In 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 93, pp. 8:1-8:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.8

Abstract

This paper presents a knowledge graph created by transforming the plenary debates of the Parliament of Finland (1907-) into Linked Open Data (LOD). The data, totaling over νm{900 000} speeches, with automatically created semantic annotations and rich ontology-based metadata, are published in a Linked Open Data Service and are used via a SPARQL API and as data dumps. The speech data is part of larger LOD publication FinnParla that also includes prosopographical data about the politicians. The data is being used for studying parliamentary language and culture in Digital Humanities in several universities. To serve a wider variety of users, the entirety of this data was also produced using Parla-CLARIN markup. We present the first publication of all Finnish parliamentary debates as data. Technical novelties in our approach include the use of both Parla-CLARIN and an RDF schema developed for representing the speeches, integration of the data to a new Parliament of Finland Ontology for deeper data analyses, and enriching the data with a variety of external national and international data sources.

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  • Information systems → Ontologies
  • Information systems → Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  • Computing methodologies → Information extraction
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  • Plenary debates
  • parliamentary data
  • Parla-CLARIN
  • Linked Open Data
  • Digital Humanities

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