Paper on Open Parliament TV presented at #ParlaCLARIN Workshop

Olivier and Joscha presented their paper, “Making Parliamentary Debates More Accessible: Aligning Video Recordings with Text Proceedings in Open Parliament TV“, at the ParlaCLARIN IV Workshop in Turin.

ParlaCLARIN is an academic workshop series focused on parliamentary data as a core resource for research, journalism, and democratic transparency. It brings together experts in natural language processing, digital humanities, and social sciences to design and improve multilingual, comparable, and well-annotated parliamentary corpora. The 2024 edition took place at LREC-COLING conference in Turin, where Open Parliament TV was presented in the Language Technology for Parliamentary Discourse session.

The paper describes how Open Parliament TV aligns German Bundestag video recordings with official text proceedings. It outlines the main synchronization challenges, the method used to address them, and the visual tools developed to inspect and evaluate alignment quality. With this paper we situate the work of Open Parliament TV within a large and well-established interdisciplinary community working for many years on open parliamentary data, proceedings, data models, and standards.

More info & resources:

• ParlaCLARIN IV workshop: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-IV
• Paper (ACL Anthology): https://aclanthology.org/2024.parlaclarin-1.12/
• Paper PDF: https://aclanthology.org/2024.parlaclarin-1.12.pdf