@inproceedings{reinig-etal-2024-politics,
    title = "How to Do Politics with Words: Investigating Speech Acts in Parliamentary Debates",
    author = "Reinig, Ines  and
      Rehbein, Ines  and
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.727",
    pages = "8287--8300",
    abstract = "This paper presents a new perspective on framing through the lens of speech acts and investigates how politicians make use of different pragmatic speech act functions in political debates. To that end, we created a new resource of German parliamentary debates, annotated with fine-grained speech act types. Our hierarchical annotation scheme distinguishes between cooperation and conflict communication, further structured into six subtypes, such as informative, declarative or argumentative-critical speech acts, with 14 fine-grained classes at the lowest level. We present classification baselines on our new data and show that the fine-grained classes in our schema can be predicted with an avg. F1 of around 82.0{\%}. We then use our classifier to analyse the use of speech acts in a large corpus of parliamentary debates over a time span from 2003{--}2023.",
}

This paper presents a new perspective on framing through the lens of speech acts and investigates how politicians make use of different pragmatic speech act functions in political debates. To that end, we created a new resource of German parliamentary debates, annotated with fine-grained speech act types. Our hierarchical annotation scheme distinguishes between cooperation and conflict communication, further structured into six subtypes, such as informative, declarative or argumentative-critical speech acts, with 14 fine-grained classes at the lowest level. We present classification baselines on our new data and show that the fine-grained classes in our schema can be predicted with an avg. F1 of around 82.0{\%}. We then use our classifier to analyse the use of speech acts in a large corpus of parliamentary debates over a time span from 2003{--}2023.
Reinig, Ines Rehbein, Ines Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
How to Do Politics with Words: Investigating Speech Acts in Parliamentary Debates