Väinö Aleksi Yrjänäinen, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, Robert Borges, Johan Jarlbrink, Lotta Åberg Brorsson, Anders P. Olsson, Pelle Snickars, Måns Magnusson
| Challenge: | The Swedish Parliament Corpus is a new research corpus for the Swedish parliament. |
| Approach: | They propose to expand the Swedish Parliament corpus by providing a database of all members of parliament over 150 years. |
| Outcome: | The new corpus facilitates detailed analysis of parliamentary speeches in several research fields. |
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