Historians, corpus linguists, and computer scientists, to name a few of several fields, have all been increasingly drawn to parliamentary data. One reason for this multidisciplinary interest is the high degree of accessibility characterizing these collections. Other reasons might be more specific to each discipline. For example, historians who want to explore developments in the meanings of concepts, corpus linguists to create and annotate a structured corpus, and data scientists to train a model on a massive text collection. These different scholarly interests are not problematic in themselves. However, they raise questions about how to strengthen mutual links within the diverse community of scholars working with parliamentary data in various ways. This conversation is an attempt to spark discussions about such a goal.
This conversation gathers scholars related to, on the one hand, the ParlaClarin network and, on the other hand, historically oriented scholars. Questions to be discussed may include: What is missing in today’s work of building corpora and infrastructures for multidisciplinary research of parliamentary data? How could historical and present-day data be made more interoperable? How do we produce scholarly corpora of parliamentary data for future use? In what ways can collaborations between linguist and historians (and others) be strengthened when it comes to producing and researching parliamentary data? What kinds of incentives are missing for such collaboration, and which existing incentives can be strengthened?
The event is arranged by the Text Mining Parliamentary Data Seminar.
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