Mr BERT Goes to Parliament: A Supervised Approach To Classifying and Classifying Parliamentary Speech in Europe

• In Event: What the Text Has to Say: Textual Analysis and European Politics

Brief Overview

We propose a supervised classification and scaling approach based on multilingual representation learning that enables transfer of automated coding of CAP categories to new languages and domains without labelled data for 7 languages in 8 countries.

Authors

• Zachary David Greene, University of Strathclyde

• Christine Anne Sylvester, University of Strathclyde