Parliament, Debates & Language

Giuseppe Sollazzo@puntofisso

Building a Digital DemocracyPortcullis House, 1 July 2015

The language used in politicspoints to the

political, cultural, social backgroundof MPs, parties, and their time

Parli-N-Grams

A search and analysis tool for Hansard

N-Gram = a sequence of N words extracted from a longer sentence

“The quick brown fox” ● 1-grams: { the, quick, brown, fox }● 2-grams: { the quick, quick brown, brown fox }● 3-grams: { the quick brown, quick brown fox }● 4-grams: { the quick brown fox }

N-Grams?

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Related Ideas

Vocabulary Size

Vocabulary Size

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/89012755@N05/10190177474/, CC BY-ND 2.0

chaMPion

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chaMPion

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chaMPion

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Hubris Syndrome?

P Garrard, D Owen, et al., “Linguistic Biomarkers of Hubris Syndrome, Cortex, Elsevier, 2013

Stylistic similarity in literature

J Hughes et al., “Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature”, PNAS, 2012

Vocabulary Size

M Daniels, “The largest vocabulary in Hip-Hop”, http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Reading level

Fox et al., “Who was America’s most well-spoken President?” http://www.vocativ.com/interactive/usa/us-politics/presidential-readability/

Reading level

Fox et al., “Who was America’s most well-spoken President?” http://www.vocativ.com/interactive/usa/us-politics/presidential-readability/

Questions?Parli-N-Gram

http://parli-n-grams.puntofisso.net

http://github.com/puntofisso/AccHack14

http://www.slideshare.net/puntofisso

Giuseppe Sollazzo@puntofisso

Building a Digital DemocracyPortcullis House, 1 July 2015