Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup

Laura Sinikallio; Senka Drobac; Minna Tamper; Rafael Leal; Mikko Koho; Jouni Tuominen; Matti La Mela; Eero Hyvönen

doi:10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.8

Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup

Laura Sinikallio, Senka Drobac, Minna Tamper, Rafael Leal, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Matti La Mela, Eero Hyvönen

University of Helsinki

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Abstract

This paper presents a knowledge graph created by transforming the plenary debates of the Parliament of Finland (1907-) into Linked Open Data (LOD). The data, totaling over 900 000 speeches, with automatically created semantic annotations and rich ontology-based metadata, are published in a Linked Open Data Service and are used via a SPARQL API and as data dumps. The speech data is part of larger LOD publication FinnParla that also includes prosopographical data about the politicians. The data is being used for studying parliamentary language and culture in Digital Humanities in several universities. To serve a wider variety of users, the entirety of this data was also produced using Parla-CLARIN markup. We present the first publication of all Finnish parliamentary debates as data. Technical novelties in our approach include the use of both Parla-CLARIN and an RDF schema developed for representing the speeches, integration of the data to a new Parliament of Finland Ontology for deeper data analyses, and enriching the data with a variety of external national and international data sources.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021
Editors	Dagmar Gromann, Gilles Serasset, Thierry Declerck, John P. McCrae, Jorge Gracia, Julia Bosque-Gil, Fernando Bobillo, Barbara Heinisch
Publisher	Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783959771993
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.8
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Language, Data, and Knowledge - Zaragoza, Spain Duration: 1 Sept 2021 → 3 Sept 2021 Conference number: 3

Publication series

Name	OpenAccess Series in Informatics
Publisher	Dagstuhl Publishing
Volume	93
ISSN (Print)	2190-6807

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Language, Data, and Knowledge
Abbreviated title	LDK
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Zaragoza
Period	01/09/2021 → 03/09/2021

Keywords

Digital humanities
Linked open data
Parla-CLARIN
Parliamentary data
Plenary debates

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Sinikallio, L., Drobac, S., Tamper, M., Leal, R., Koho, M., Tuominen, J., Mela, M. L., & Hyvönen, E. (2021). Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup. In D. Gromann, G. Serasset, T. Declerck, J. P. McCrae, J. Gracia, J. Bosque-Gil, F. Bobillo, & B. Heinisch (Eds.), 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021 Article 8 (OpenAccess Series in Informatics; Vol. 93). Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.8

Sinikallio, Laura ; Drobac, Senka ; Tamper, Minna et al. / Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup. 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021. editor / Dagmar Gromann ; Gilles Serasset ; Thierry Declerck ; John P. McCrae ; Jorge Gracia ; Julia Bosque-Gil ; Fernando Bobillo ; Barbara Heinisch. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. (OpenAccess Series in Informatics).

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Sinikallio, L, Drobac, S, Tamper, M, Leal, R, Koho, M, Tuominen, J, Mela, ML & Hyvönen, E 2021, Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup. in D Gromann, G Serasset, T Declerck, JP McCrae, J Gracia, J Bosque-Gil, F Bobillo & B Heinisch (eds), 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021., 8, OpenAccess Series in Informatics, vol. 93, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, International Conference on Language, Data, and Knowledge, Zaragoza, Spain, 01/09/2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.8

Plenary debates of the parliament of Finland as linked open data and in parla-CLARIN markup. / Sinikallio, Laura; Drobac, Senka; Tamper, Minna et al.
3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021. ed. / Dagmar Gromann; Gilles Serasset; Thierry Declerck; John P. McCrae; Jorge Gracia; Julia Bosque-Gil; Fernando Bobillo; Barbara Heinisch. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. 8 (OpenAccess Series in Informatics; Vol. 93).

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