From parliamentary history to digital and computational history: a NLP-friendly TEI model for historical parliamentary proceedings
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article introduces a new method for the digital and computational analysis of historical parliamentary proceedings. The article presents an XML-TEI model specifically designed for encoding historical parliamentary documents; this model is exemplified through the analysis of parliamentary debates from the French Chamber of Deputies (1889–1893). The first part of the article discusses the motivations behind the model’s development. The second part outlines the methodological choices in constructing the model and the need for schema adaptation. We subsequently detail our method for automatic encoding of such large corpora. Finally, we propose an approach to annotate parliamentary debates using natural language processing analyses, focusing on topic modelling.
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqae071
Authors: Marie Puren, Fanny Lebreton, Aurélien Pellet, Pierre Vernus
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Bibliothèque nationale de France
OpenAlex ID: W4403625377