Zeitenwenden: Detecting changes in the German political discourse

Kai-Robin Lange, Jonas Rieger, Niklas Benner, Carsten Jentsch
10/23/2024
cs.CL

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From a monarchy to a democracy, to a dictatorship and back to a democracy -- the German political landscape has been constantly changing ever since the first German national state was formed in 1871. After World War II, the Federal Republic of Germany was formed in 1949. Since then every plenary session of the German Bundestag was logged and even has been digitized over the course of the last few years. We analyze these texts using a time series variant of the topic model LDA to investigate which events had a lasting effect on the political discourse and how the political topics changed over time. This allows us to detect changes in word frequency (and thus key discussion points) in political discourse.

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@article{lange2024zeitenwenden,
  title  = {Zeitenwenden: Detecting changes in the German political discourse},
  author = {Kai-Robin Lange and Jonas Rieger and Niklas Benner and Carsten Jentsch},
  year   = {2024},
  eprint = {2410.17960},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17960v1}
}

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