no code implementations • 23 Aug 2016 • Henrik Hermansson, James P. Cross
Political scientists often find themselves tracking amendments to political texts.
1 code implementation • 11 Jul 2016 • Derek Greene, James P. Cross
To unveil the plenary agenda and detect latent themes in legislative speeches over time, MEP speech content is analyzed using a new dynamic topic modeling method based on two layers of Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF).
no code implementations • 27 May 2015 • Derek Greene, James P. Cross
This study analyzes political interactions in the European Parliament (EP) by considering how the political agenda of the plenary sessions has evolved over time and the manner in which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have reacted to external and internal stimuli when making Parliamentary speeches.