100 years of plentitude

This data project curated a century of democracy as reflected in parliamentary speeches, making the Riksdagens protokoll available for reliable and replicable text analysis in Sweden and beyond.

Together with researchers of the VR project , we have been working on curating the parliamentary protocols of the Swedish parliament. The material that now has been made available for analysis makes up more than a century of Swedish political discourse. This preparatory work included connecting speeches to the members of parliament from 1920 until today and providing associated metadata. Currently, the corpus contains 1 million speeches given by 6 thousand parliamentarians, an equivalent of over 800 thousand pages of oratory history. In 2022, the corpus project received an to improve its usability for researchers across disciplines.

Open access data: Swedish parliamentary proceedings - Riksdagens protokoll 1920-2021

The curated corpus is open access and can be found on . The curation process is also explained on

Research field

Computational Text Analysis

Computational analysis offers new ways to derive meaning from text. We use large corpora of text as social sensors to measure what people feel, think, and talk about, which allows us to track the emergence of shared social understandings.

Organisation

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

IAS conduct cutting-edge research on important social, political and cultural matters. The research is sociological - in its original and broadly conceived meaning.

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