Out of the Mouths of MPs: Speaker Attribution in Parliamentary Debates (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Identifying who says what to whom is an essential prerequisite for analysing human communication. |
| Approach: | They propose a new corpus for speaker attribution in german parliamentary debates . the data includes more than 7,700 manually annotated events of speech, thought and writing . they then apply their model to predict speech events in 20 years of debates and investigate the use of factives in the rhetoric of MPs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts speech events in 20 years of debates and investigates the use of factives in the rhetoric of MPs. |
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