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12.00 Welcome, pizza & salad lunch (Aalto Heldig DH Pizza)
-Presentation by Kimmo Makkonen (UTU): Topic modelling the parliamentary speeches in Eduskunta 1999-2014: does male and female MPs have different topics?
-Discussion
-Antti Pajala (UTU): Parliamentary votes and MPs' private initiatives - data and research
13.15 Coffee
13.30 Parliamentary data: research, development and applications
-Måns Magnusson (Aalto): Parliamentary data in Sweden / “Voices from the far right: a text analysis of Swedish parliamentary debates”
-Kimmo Elo (UTU): "Europe" from a German perspective: the proceedings of the Bundestag studied with digital methods
-Salla Simola (Aalto): Polarization of political speech: a text analysis of Finnish parliamentary debates
-Kimmo Kettunen (NLF): Using a Lexical Semantic Tagger for analysis of Finnish parliamentary protocols 1907-2000
-Teemu Kiviniemi (YLE), Development of the Voitto robot, citizens’ watchbot monitoring the Parliament
15.00 Conclusion: data, tools and research—what next?
-Mietta Lennes (FIN-CLARIN): FIN-CLARIN and Language Bank Parliamentary data
-Eero Hyvönen, Matti La Mela (Aalto, HELDIG): Semantic Parliament project: Linked Parliament of Finland Data (1907-) and services
-Concluding discussion
Seminar is open for everyone to join. Please register for catering at https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/0645E743508276CC or by email to matti.lamela@aalto.fi.