Riksdagsdebatter.se: An Interface to Explore Swedish Parliamentary Debates Since 1867Show others and affiliations
2026 (English)In: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications / [ed] Mari Väina & Olha Petrovych, University of Oslo Library , 2026, Vol. 7, p. 1-4, article id 4Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper introduces version 1.0 of riksdagsdebatter.se, a freely available and user-friendly interface for searching,filtering, and exploring Swedish parliamentary speeches since 1867. The underlying corpus is based on open-access data from the Swedish Parliament, further processed and enriched within the SWERIK project, includingre-OCRing the debate records, segmenting the text into individual speeches, and adding structured metadata,with ongoing improvements to data quality. The corpus currently comprises over one million annotated speeches,totaling approximately 450 million words, and offers a comprehensive record of political debate in modernSwedish history. This resource has wide-ranging applications for researchers and students in digital humanities,history, political science, and sociology, as well as for journalists, policymakers, and the general public. Version1.0 of riksdagsdebatter.se provides four primary tools: word trends, keyword in context, n-gram analysis, and theability to create and download filtered sub-corpora.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Oslo Library , 2026. Vol. 7, p. 1-4, article id 4
Keywords [en]
parliamentary debates, Sweden, text analysis tools, user interface, SWERIK
National Category
History Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-82850DOI: 10.5617/dhnbpub.13135OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-82850DiVA, id: diva2:2042021
Conference
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
2026-02-262026-02-262026-03-03Bibliographically approved