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title = "Comparing Lexical Usage in Political Discourse across Diachronic Corpora",
author = "Hofmann, Klaus and
Marakasova, Anna and
Baumann, Andreas and
Neidhardt, Julia and
Wissik, Tanja",
editor = "Fi{\v{s}}er, Darja and
Eskevich, Maria and
de Jong, Franciska",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.parlaclarin-1.11",
pages = "58--65",
abstract = "Most diachronic studies on both lexico-semantic change and political language usage are based on individual or comparable corpora. In this paper, we explore ways of studying the stability (and changeability) of lexical usage in political discourse across two corpora which are substantially different in structure and size. We present a case study focusing on lexical items associated with political parties in two diachronic corpora of Austrian German, namely a diachronic media corpus (AMC) and a corpus of parliamentary records (ParlAT), and measure the cross-temporal stability of lexical usage over a period of 20 years. We conduct three sets of comparative analyses investigating a) the stability of sets of lexical items associated with the three major political parties over time, b) lexical similarity between parties, and c) the similarity between the lexical choices in parliamentary speeches by members of the parties vis-{`}a-vis the media{'}s reporting on the parties. We employ time series modeling using generalized additive models (GAMs) to compare the lexical similarities and differences between parties within and across corpora. The results show that changes observed in these measures can be meaningfully related to political events during that time.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-47-4",
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%A Hofmann, Klaus
%A Marakasova, Anna
%A Baumann, Andreas
%A Neidhardt, Julia
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%Y Fišer, Darja
%Y Eskevich, Maria
%Y de Jong, Franciska
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%D 2020
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%P 58-65
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[Comparing Lexical Usage in Political Discourse across Diachronic Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/2020.parlaclarin-1.11) (Hofmann et al., ParlaCLARIN 2020)
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