What Male and Female MPs are Talking About in the Finnish Parliament Eduskunta? A Topic Modeling of Plenary Speeches from 1999 to 2014

• In Event: Gender, Rhetoric, and Language

Brief Overview

What are women and men talking about in the Parliament? The question is answered by analyzing a corpus of 180,000 plenary speeches by an LDA topic model which shows that there are women’s topics but not any topic foreign to women.

Author

• Kimmo Makkonen, University of Turku