However, realizing this potential strongly hinges on data availability. While more and more
political text is available online in principle, bringing the various, often only rather loosely …

Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication
mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users' lectal …

This paper introduces the GermaParl Corpus. We outline available data, the data
preparation process for preparing corpora of parliamentary debates and the tools we used to …

It is widely accepted that internal constraints on variation are not modulated by social and
stylistic factors (eg, Labov, 2010: 265). Is this also true for register differences as a special …

In this paper, we operationalize register differences at the intersection of formality and mode,
and distinguish four broad register categories: spoken informal (conversations), spoken …

Several recent papers have used support-vector machines with word features to classify
political texts–in particular, legislative speech–by ideology. Our own work on this topic led us …

Abstract The List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) is a key example of a family of new right-wing parties
that, according to many observers, have had a strong effect on European party systems. This …

The paper calls attention to the problem of massive amounts of digital historical sources that
will eventually be faced by researchers of contemporary history. Slovenian parliamentary …

Parliamentary transcripts provide a valuable resource to understand the reality and know
about the most important facts that occur over time in our societies. Furthermore, the political …

While there is preliminary evidence about the importance of register in linguistic choice-
making processes, systematic studies focusing on the interaction between register and …