@InProceedings{kimura-EtAl:2016:ALR12,
  author    = {Kimura, Yasutomo  and  Takamaru, Keiichi  and  Tanaka, Takuma  and  Kobayashi, Akio  and  Sakaji, Hiroki  and  Uchida, Yuzu  and  Ototake, Hokuto  and  Masuyama, Shigeru},
  title     = {Creating Japanese Political Corpus from Local Assembly Minutes of 47 prefectures},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR12)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {78--85},
  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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-5410}
}