Synopsis
This task consists of two subtasks on identifying
two important aspects of a speaker in parliamentary debates:
- Sub-Task 1: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify the ideology of the speaker's party.
- Sub-Task 2: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify whether the speaker's party is currently governing or in opposition.
Task
Debates in national parliaments do not only affect
the fundamental aspects of citizens' life,
but often a broader area, or even the whole world.
As a form of political debate, however, parliamentary speeches are
often indirect and present a number of challenges to computational analyses.
In this task, we focus on identifying two variables associated
with speakers in a parliamentary debate:
their political ideology and whether they belong to
a governing party or a party in opposition.
Both subtasks are formulated as binary classification tasks.
Data
The data for this task comes
from
ParlaMint,
a multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates.
Task Committee
