IsraParlTweet: The Israeli Parliamentary and Twitter Resource

Citation:

Mor-Lan, G., Levi, E., Sheafer, T., & Shenhav, S. R. (2024). IsraParlTweet: The Israeli Parliamentary and Twitter Resource. In N. Calzolari, M. - Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 9372–9381) . Torino, Italia, ELRA and ICCL.

Abstract:

We introduce IsraParlTweet, a new linked corpus of Hebrew-language parliamentary discussions from the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) between the years 1992-2023 and Twitter posts made by Members of the Knesset between the years 2008-2023, containing a total of 294.5 million Hebrew tokens. In addition to raw text, the corpus contains comprehensive metadata on speakers and Knesset sessions as well as several linguistic annotations. As a result, IsraParlTweet can be used to conduct a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses and provide valuable insights into political discourse in Israel.

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