What Does the Indian Parliament Discuss? An Exploratory Analysis of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha

Suman Adhya, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal
4/1/2023
cs.CL

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Abstract

The TCPD-IPD dataset is a collection of questions and answers discussed in the Lower House of the Parliament of India during the Question Hour between 1999 and 2019. Although it is difficult to analyze such a huge collection manually, modern text analysis tools can provide a powerful means to navigate it. In this paper, we perform an exploratory analysis of the dataset. In particular, we present insightful corpus-level statistics and a detailed analysis of three subsets of the dataset. In the latter analysis, the focus is on understanding the temporal evolution of topics using a dynamic topic model. We observe that the parliamentary conversation indeed mirrors the political and socio-economic tensions of each period.

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@article{adhya2023what,
  title  = {What Does the Indian Parliament Discuss? An Exploratory Analysis of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha},
  author = {Suman Adhya and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2304.00235},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00235v1}
}

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