Creating Japanese Political Corpus from Local Assembly Minutes of 47 prefectures

Yasutomo Kimura, Keiichi Takamaru, Takuma Tanaka, Akio Kobayashi, Hiroki Sakaji, Yuzu Uchida, Hokuto Ototake, Shigeru Masuyama


Abstract
This paper describes a Japanese political corpus created for interdisciplinary political research. The corpus contains the local assembly minutes of 47 prefectures from April 2011 to March 2015. This four-year period coincides with the term of office for assembly members in most autonomies. We analyze statistical data, such as the number of speakers, characters, and words, to clarify the characteristics of local assembly minutes. In addition, we identify problems associated with the different web services used by the autonomies to make the minutes available to the public.
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W16-5410
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Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR12)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Koiti Hasida, Kam-Fai Wong, Nicoletta Calzorari, Key-Sun Choi
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ALR
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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78–85
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Yasutomo Kimura, Keiichi Takamaru, Takuma Tanaka, Akio Kobayashi, Hiroki Sakaji, Yuzu Uchida, Hokuto Ototake, and Shigeru Masuyama. 2016. Creating Japanese Political Corpus from Local Assembly Minutes of 47 prefectures. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR12), pages 78–85, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Creating Japanese Political Corpus from Local Assembly Minutes of 47 prefectures (Kimura et al., ALR 2016)
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