Public opinion in the German parliament: A BERT-based approach

• In Event: Government and Opinion Formation

Brief Overview

To understand how policymakers use public opinion in policy making, we develop a BERT-based classification model to categorize different nuances of references to public opinion made by policymakers in German parliamentary debates.

Authors

• Hung Hoang Viet Nguyen, University of Bremen

• Nate Breznau, University of Bremen