Out of the Mouths of MPs: Speaker Attribution in Parliamentary Debates

Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer, Annelen Brunner, Simone Paolo Ponzetto


Abstract
This paper presents GePaDe_SpkAtt , a new corpus for speaker attribution in German parliamentary debates, with more than 7,700 manually annotated events of speech, thought and writing. Our role inventory includes the sources, addressees, messages and topics of the speech event and also two additional roles, medium and evidence. We report baseline results for the automatic prediction of speech events and their roles, with high scores for both, event triggers and roles. Then we apply our model to predict speech events in 20 years of parliamentary debates and investigate the use of factives in the rhetoric of MPs.
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2024.lrec-main.1098
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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12553–12563
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Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer, Annelen Brunner, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto. 2024. Out of the Mouths of MPs: Speaker Attribution in Parliamentary Debates. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 12553–12563, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Out of the Mouths of MPs: Speaker Attribution in Parliamentary Debates (Rehbein et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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