Mining the Bundestag
Did you know that the German parliament publishes protocols for all of its proceedings in PDF format? It is relatively straightforward to download and parse them, so we can easily collect a …
This project applies computational methods to several sources of German public and political discourse. It is an umbrella for related experiments rather than a single dataset or model.
News coverage §
The Tagesschau work collects articles from tagesschau.de and examines
patterns in their timing, length, language, and subject matter. It also
includes an experiment in fine-tuning a German language model to generate
articles in the style of the collected news coverage.
Parliamentary speech §
The Bundestag work collects and parses historical parliamentary transcripts to study word associations and how political language changes over time.
