Policy Domains and the Speakers' Gender in ParlaMint-DK 4.1

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the ParlaMint-DK 4.1 corpus, which consists of the Danish parliament speeches from 2014 to 2022 annotated with 20 general policy domains mapped to the codebook of the Comparative Agendas Project. The policy domains were added to the speeches semiautomatically using the agenda titles under which the speeches occurred. In the paper, we also account for how some of the linguistic annotations of the corpus were improved using the Text Tonsorium and present some of our previous studies on parliament data. We also describe novwl investigations, based on the policy domain annotations in ParlaMint-DK aimed at determining which domains are most frequently addressed in the speeches, and the frequency by which policy areas are debated by female and male politicians during the various governments covered by the corpus.