March 21, 2020 Conference paper Open Access

Kettunen, Kimmo; La Mela, Matti

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{
  "publisher": "Zenodo", 
  "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.3676372", 
  "language": "eng", 
  "title": "Digging Deeper into the Finnish Parliamentary Protocols \u2013 Using a Lexical Semantic Tagger for Studying Meaning Change of Everyman's Rights (allemansr\u00e4tten)", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2020, 
        3, 
        21
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "abstract": "<p>This paper analyses the protocols of the Parliament of Finland 1907&ndash;2000. They have been digitised and published as open data by the&nbsp; Finnish Parliament in 20181. In the analysis we use a novel tool, a semantic tagger for Finnish - FiST. We describe the tagger generally and show results of seman-tic analysis both on the whole of the parliamentary corpus and on a small subset of data where everyman&rsquo;s rights (a widely used right of public access to nature) have been the main topic of parliamentary discussions. Our analysis contributes to the understanding of the development of this &ldquo;tradition&rdquo; of public access rights, and is also the first study utilizing the Finnish semantic tagger as a tool for content analysis in digital humanities research. Keyword search shows first that that the discussion of everyman&rsquo;s rights has had three different peak peri-ods in the Finnish Parliament: 1946, 1973, and 1992. Secondly, the contents of the discussions have different nature for all the periods, which could be clearly detected with FiST and keyness analysis.</p>", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Kettunen, Kimmo"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "La Mela, Matti"
    }
  ], 
  "id": "3676372", 
  "event-place": "Riga, Latvia", 
  "type": "paper-conference", 
  "event": "Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN)"
}