University of Helsinki
Now it’s time to present the data we work with in order to show you how huge our plans and intentions.
So, what we have? We explore the linked Open Dataset with data from and about the European Parliament (EP): the parliamentary debates translations from 1999 till 2017. It includes 247,955 dociments with the length from 121 to 394 words. All of them also contain metadata such as a name of speaker, country, date of birth, gender, function.
We have speeches in original language and its English translation provided with the date and the link to the video.
Our main interest focuses on the concepts of the past and the future and the way they are represented in the speeches. To start, we counted the number of mentions of these concepts: MPs expessed ideas about the future 30771 times and only 9214 they spoke about the past.