Workflow and Metadata Challenges in the ParlaMint Project: Insights from Building the ParlaMint-UA Corpus
Abstract
The speeches in ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings are marked by their speaker, and the speakers are then paired with various metadata, also with their time-delimited affiliations with political parties or parliamentary groups. These are stored separately, and are also associated with further information.
This paper discusses the addition of metadata on political parties and parliamentary groups, encoding their political position on various issues, in particular their categorisation on the left-to-right political spectrum. The paper explains our sources for this information, the process of data collection, and its encoding in the corpora.
This additional metadata should be of interest to parliamentary data research, while the methodology developed could be used to add further metadata to the ParlaMint corpora.