An OCR Pipeline for Transforming Parliamentary Debates into Linked Data: Case ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web

Senka Drobac; Laura Sinikallio; Eero Hyvönen

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An OCR Pipeline for Transforming Parliamentary Debates into Linked Data: Case ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web

Senka Drobac, Laura Sinikallio, Eero Hyvönen

University of Helsinki

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This paper presents the OCR pipeline created for ParliamentSampo - Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web, a Linked Open Data (LOD) service, data infrastructure, and semantic portal for studying Finnish political culture, language, and networks of the Members of Parliament (MP). A knowledge graph of linked data has been created based on ca. 967 000 speeches in all plenary sessions of the Parliament of Finland in 1907—2022; the data is also available in XML format, utilizing the new international Parla- CLARIN format. A central part of the historical debates 1907-1999 was available only as PDF documents of fairly low OCR quality and had to be OCRed first; this paper reports lessons learned from this process.

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10670
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries - Virtual, Online, Norway Duration: 8 Mar 2023 → 10 Mar 2023 Conference number: 7

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InTaVia/Tuominen: In/Tangible European Heritage - Visual Analysis, Curation and Communication Note
Koho, M., Tuominen, J., Rantala, H., Hyvönen, E., Kesäniemi, J., Tamper, C., Peura, L. & Poikkimäki, H.
01/11/2020 → 30/10/2023
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding

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