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Parliamentary Discourse

Welcome to the Parliamentary Discourse project blog! We’re a six-month project funded under the JISC eContent programme 2011, and we’re working on Hansard (the record of British parliamentary debates) from 1803-2003, taking existing data and enhancing it for various users, including linguists, cultural scholars, historians and the general public.

The first stage of the project – working on improving the existing data with part-of-speech tagging – has been delayed slightly because of our decision to use a new, much higher-quality dataset than what we originally had, although we believe using this improved data is more than worth the slight delay. Very soon, our partners at UCREL (Lancaster University) and GATE (University of Sheffield) will run the data through their systems, and we’ll be back on schedule. In the meantime, the project Co-I, Professor Christian Kay and the RA, Marc Alexander, are working through previous studies of British parliamentary discourse, while the project’s consulting historian, Dr Andrew Struan, is looking into the history of Hansard itself – of which more in a future post.

June 2, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Author Parliamentary Discourse 

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