Emotions Running High? A Synopsis of the state of Turkish Politics through the ParlaMint Corpus

Gül M. Kurtoğlu Eskişar, Çağrı Çöltekin


Abstract
We present the initial results of our quantitative study on emotions (Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Surprise) in Turkish parliament (2011–2021). We use machine learning models to assign emotion scores to all speeches delivered in the parliament during this period, and observe any changes to them in relation to major political and social events in Turkey. We highlight a number of interesting observations, such as anger being the dominant emotion in parliamentary speeches, and the ruling party showing more stable emotions compared to the political opposition, despite its depiction as a populist party in the literature.
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2022.parlaclarin-1.10
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Proceedings of the Workshop ParlaCLARIN III within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, Jakob Lenardič, Franciska de Jong
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ParlaCLARIN
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European Language Resources Association
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61–70
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Gül M. Kurtoğlu Eskişar and Çağrı Çöltekin. 2022. Emotions Running High? A Synopsis of the state of Turkish Politics through the ParlaMint Corpus. In Proceedings of the Workshop ParlaCLARIN III within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 61–70, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Emotions Running High? A Synopsis of the state of Turkish Politics through the ParlaMint Corpus (Kurtoğlu Eskişar & Çöltekin, ParlaCLARIN 2022)
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