What Does the Indian Parliament Discuss? An Exploratory Analysis of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha

Suman Adhya, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal


Abstract
The TCPD-IPD dataset is a collection of questions and answers discussed in the Lower House of the Parliament of India during the Question Hour between 1999 and 2019. Although it is difficult to analyze such a huge collection manually, modern text analysis tools can provide a powerful means to navigate it. In this paper, we perform an exploratory analysis of the dataset. In particular, we present insightful corpus-level statistics and perform a more detailed analysis of three subsets of the dataset. In the latter analysis, the focus is on understanding the temporal evolution of topics using a dynamic topic model. We observe that the parliamentary conversation indeed mirrors the political and socio-economic tensions of each period.
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2022.politicalnlp-1.10
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Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Haithem Afli, Mehwish Alam, Houda Bouamor, Cristina Blasi Casagran, Colleen Boland, Sahar Ghannay
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PoliticalNLP
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Suman Adhya and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal. 2022. What Does the Indian Parliament Discuss? An Exploratory Analysis of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha. In Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, pages 72–78, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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