Challenge: The paper presents a new training dataset of sentences in 7 languages, manually annotated for sentiment, which is used in a series of experiments focused on training a robust sentiment identifier for parliamentary proceedings.
Approach: They propose to use a dataset of sentences manually annotated for sentiment to train a robust sentiment identifier for parliamentary proceedings.
Outcome: The proposed model performs very well on languages not seen during fine-tuning and additional fine- tuning data from other languages significantly improves the target parliament’s results.

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