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Political Debates: Opening up debates to political science researchers

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This Zenodo submission contains a poster and a demo video produced within the SNSF Spark Grant “Debating Human Rights” (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/221139). The materials present the Debates Analytics deliverable developed as part of this broader project. Debates Analytics is a modular platform designed for the large-scale analysis of video and audio debates, supporting the full workflow from raw multimedia ingestion to searchable, structured analytics. The system combines AI-based transcription and speaker diarization with human-in-the-loop correction and annotation, enabling transparent and reproducible analysis of spoken content. Initially applied to the analysis of United Nations Human Rights Council debates, the approach is generalizable to other debate-driven and policy-oriented contexts. The poster and demo video illustrate the system architecture, processing pipeline, and user-facing capabilities. Debates Analytics documentation is available at https://sdsc-ordes.github.io/debates-analytics/index.html

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18433086

Authors: Vivar-Rios, Carlos, Maennel, Sabine, Casey, Hannah Laureen, Riba Grognuz, Oksana

Institutions: Swiss Data Science Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Subfield: General Social Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7126212883

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