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Creating and Analysing Linked Open Data for the EU Parliament

Laura Hollink
Laura Hollink

The document discusses creating linked open data from speeches and transcripts of the European Parliament. It describes the data structure for representing a speech as linked data, including properties like the speaker, date, title, text in multiple languages, and links to other speeches. It also discusses linking the data to external sources to identify speakers and add additional context about countries.

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Creating and Analysing Linked Open Data for the EU Parliament Laura Hollink Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Information Access Group June 7, 2017 DG ITEC European Parliament visit to CWI
Information Access group: Big Data Variety and Veracity Combining Linked Open Data / Semantic Web technology with Statistical approaches for: Web scale data integration, with provenance tracking where did my data come from? Modelling multiple perspectives on the same data how is the same event covered in different datasets? Pattern discovery in digital traces of user behavior how is my data being used?
Linked Open Data A method of publishing structured data on the Web in such a way that it can be linked and used by machines as well as people. http://5stardata.info https://www.data.gov/ https://data.gov.uk/ http://dati.camera.it/ http://opendata.cz/ https://www.data.gv.at/ https://data.overheid.nl/ https://data.europa.eu/
Linked Open Data about the EP Plenary http://www.europarl.europa.eu
Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf
Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish All speeches that have no translations
A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish All speeches that have no translations All speeches where someone replied to someone from Ireland in a debate about the Financial Crisis
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees?
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees?
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe?
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type EP on dati.camera.it owl:sameAs A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe?
Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type EP on dati.camera.it owl:sameAs A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe? What role do Italian MEPs have in Italy?
Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker country
Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution A speech Pat Cox speaker country
Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution How did the members of the Human Rights committee speak about refugees? A speech Pat Cox speaker country
Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution How did the members of the Human Rights committee speak about refugees? A speech Pat Cox speaker country Who was a member of more than three committees at the same time?
What we have now: linked open government data for the EP 1. a dataset in structured, standard web-formats ready for download 2. links to external sources (that use these same standard web-formats) 3. a web service where the data can be queried (using a web-standard query language), in combination with these external sources. People can build on this by building apps, creating links. links made by the EC Talk of Europe project: http://talkofeurope.eu/
Example queries on top of Talk of Europe Linked Open Data
Example query: number of speeches per country AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK Mentions of 'human rights' by country 01000200030004000500060007000
The number of speeches translated per language 0 10000 20000 30000 2000 2005 2010 2015 year scount g Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish
Example query: number of debates with the topics nuclear weapon / nuclear energy, per language
Example query: MEPs born outside Europe Members of Parliament (DBpedia contains info on birthplace, birth date, schools, careers, residence, family, etc. )
Some example applications that we have created on top of Linked Open Data
PoliMedia: linking news to parliament is about 3 Million links is about Transcriptions of meetings of the Dutch parliament
PoliMedia: linking news to parliament http://polimedia.nl/
ION Data 1. We crawled 5 newspapers for a year 2. Detected topics 3. Published it as Linked Open Data 4. Built an application on top Article URL Image caption Image featuresExtracted topics Date Headline Image URL Contents of the ION corpus Washington Post New York Times Daily Mail The Inde- pendent Huffington Post Country Nr. of articles 87.457 57.747 86.095 23.974 68.434 Nr. of images 54.063 42.613 83.269 21.272 34.874 Nr. of topics detected (Wikipedia pages) 491.513 371.680 368.302 98.610 245.829 Nr. of topics detected (categories) 1.730.271 1.280.850 1.554.609 497.981 1.232.599
ION application: comparing newspaper coverage http://ion.project.cwi.nl/
ION application: comparing newspaper coverage http://ion.project.cwi.nl/
On our wish-list: linking news to the EP debates "Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament Year Nr.ofmentions 020406080100 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
On our wish-list: linking news to the EP debates "Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament Year Nr.ofmentions 020406080100 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
Collaborators Jacco van Ossenbruggen Laura Hollink Marnix van Berchum Martijn Kleppe Max Kemman Jill Briggeman Henri Beunders Jan Odijk Steven Krauwer Astrid van Aggelen
Talk of Europe project: http://talkofeurope.eu/ Talk of Europe data: purl.org/linkedpolitics Talk of Europe project video: https://youtu.be/GxA53gkCe0o PoliMedia demo: http://polimedia.nl/ PoliMedia project video: https://youtu.be/u24oRCj7xrQ ION demo: http://ion.project.cwi.nl/ My website: http://cwi.nl/~hollink/ A. van Aggelen, L. Hollink, M. Kemman, M. Kleppe & H. Beunders. The debates of the European Parliament as Linked Open Data. Semantic Web Journal, pp. 1-10, DOI: 10.3233/SW-160227, 2017. M. Kleppe, L. Hollink, J. Oomen, M. Kenman, D. Juric, J. Blom, H. Beunders. PoliMedia - Improving the Analyses of Radio & Newspaper coverage of Political Debates. First prize winner of the LinkedUp Veni Competition at the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), Geneva, September 2013. Id be happy to answer any questions L. Hollink, A. Bedjeti, M. van Harmelen and D. Elliott. A Corpus of Images and Text in Online News. In proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portoro転, Slovenia

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Creating and Analysing Linked Open Data for the EU Parliament

  • 1. Creating and Analysing Linked Open Data for the EU Parliament Laura Hollink Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Information Access Group June 7, 2017 DG ITEC European Parliament visit to CWI
  • 2. Information Access group: Big Data Variety and Veracity Combining Linked Open Data / Semantic Web technology with Statistical approaches for: Web scale data integration, with provenance tracking where did my data come from? Modelling multiple perspectives on the same data how is the same event covered in different datasets? Pattern discovery in digital traces of user behavior how is my data being used?
  • 3. Linked Open Data A method of publishing structured data on the Web in such a way that it can be linked and used by machines as well as people. http://5stardata.info https://www.data.gov/ https://data.gov.uk/ http://dati.camera.it/ http://opendata.cz/ https://www.data.gv.at/ https://data.overheid.nl/ https://data.europa.eu/
  • 4. Linked Open Data about the EP Plenary http://www.europarl.europa.eu
  • 5. Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf
  • 6. Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
  • 7. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
  • 8. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title.
  • 9. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming
  • 10. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland
  • 11. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish
  • 12. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish All speeches that have no translations
  • 13. A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next An session day partOf Data Structure A speech Pat Cox datespeaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf MemberOf Parliament rdf:type An session day partOf A speech ...This is indeed a homecoming...@en Pat Cox date text speaker 2004-05-03 Formal opening of the 鍖rst sitting of the enlarged European Parliamenttitle An item on the agenda partOf ...Dette er i h淡j grad en hjemkomst...@da "en" language "Loud and sustained applause"@en unclassi鍖ed Metadata http://www.europarl.europa.eu/... videoURI MemberOf Parliament rdf:type Ireland country The next speech next translated An session day partOf All speeches by MEP Pat Cox in May 2004, with Formal Opening in the title. All speeches mentioning homecoming All speeches by someone from Ireland All speeches originally in Danish All speeches that have no translations All speeches where someone replied to someone from Ireland in a debate about the Financial Crisis
  • 14. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country
  • 15. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country
  • 16. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees?
  • 17. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees?
  • 18. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe?
  • 19. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type EP on dati.camera.it owl:sameAs A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe?
  • 20. Links to external sourcesA speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m population currencyhighest mountain A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type A speech Pat Cox speaker Geonames:IrelandIreland owl:sameAs 4,622,917 EUR1,038m http://dbpedia.org/ resource/Pat_Cox owl:sameAs 28-11-1952 Trinity College Dublin journalist population currencyhighest mountain birthdate alma mater rdf:type EP on dati.camera.it owl:sameAs A speech Pat Cox speaker Ireland country How many times did the countries with the highest population count speak about regufees? Are there MEPs born outside Europe? What role do Italian MEPs have in Italy?
  • 21. Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker country
  • 22. Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution A speech Pat Cox speaker country
  • 23. Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution How did the members of the Human Rights committee speak about refugees? A speech Pat Cox speaker country
  • 24. Links to external sources A speech Pat Cox speaker President 2004 2002 politicalFunction European parliamant vice-chair ELDE politicalFunction role institution end 1998 beginning 1994 substitute Committee on Budgetary Control politicalFunction role institution end 1992 beginning 1989 end beginning role institution How did the members of the Human Rights committee speak about refugees? A speech Pat Cox speaker country Who was a member of more than three committees at the same time?
  • 25. What we have now: linked open government data for the EP 1. a dataset in structured, standard web-formats ready for download 2. links to external sources (that use these same standard web-formats) 3. a web service where the data can be queried (using a web-standard query language), in combination with these external sources. People can build on this by building apps, creating links. links made by the EC Talk of Europe project: http://talkofeurope.eu/
  • 26. Example queries on top of Talk of Europe Linked Open Data
  • 27. Example query: number of speeches per country AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK Mentions of 'human rights' by country 01000200030004000500060007000
  • 28. The number of speeches translated per language 0 10000 20000 30000 2000 2005 2010 2015 year scount g Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish
  • 29. Example query: number of debates with the topics nuclear weapon / nuclear energy, per language
  • 30. Example query: MEPs born outside Europe Members of Parliament (DBpedia contains info on birthplace, birth date, schools, careers, residence, family, etc. )
  • 31. Some example applications that we have created on top of Linked Open Data
  • 32. PoliMedia: linking news to parliament is about 3 Million links is about Transcriptions of meetings of the Dutch parliament
  • 33. PoliMedia: linking news to parliament http://polimedia.nl/
  • 34. ION Data 1. We crawled 5 newspapers for a year 2. Detected topics 3. Published it as Linked Open Data 4. Built an application on top Article URL Image caption Image featuresExtracted topics Date Headline Image URL Contents of the ION corpus Washington Post New York Times Daily Mail The Inde- pendent Huffington Post Country Nr. of articles 87.457 57.747 86.095 23.974 68.434 Nr. of images 54.063 42.613 83.269 21.272 34.874 Nr. of topics detected (Wikipedia pages) 491.513 371.680 368.302 98.610 245.829 Nr. of topics detected (categories) 1.730.271 1.280.850 1.554.609 497.981 1.232.599
  • 35. ION application: comparing newspaper coverage http://ion.project.cwi.nl/
  • 36. ION application: comparing newspaper coverage http://ion.project.cwi.nl/
  • 37. On our wish-list: linking news to the EP debates "Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament Year Nr.ofmentions 020406080100 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
  • 38. On our wish-list: linking news to the EP debates "Slovenia" in the plenary meetings of the European Parliament Year Nr.ofmentions 020406080100 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
  • 39. Collaborators Jacco van Ossenbruggen Laura Hollink Marnix van Berchum Martijn Kleppe Max Kemman Jill Briggeman Henri Beunders Jan Odijk Steven Krauwer Astrid van Aggelen
  • 40. Talk of Europe project: http://talkofeurope.eu/ Talk of Europe data: purl.org/linkedpolitics Talk of Europe project video: https://youtu.be/GxA53gkCe0o PoliMedia demo: http://polimedia.nl/ PoliMedia project video: https://youtu.be/u24oRCj7xrQ ION demo: http://ion.project.cwi.nl/ My website: http://cwi.nl/~hollink/ A. van Aggelen, L. Hollink, M. Kemman, M. Kleppe & H. Beunders. The debates of the European Parliament as Linked Open Data. Semantic Web Journal, pp. 1-10, DOI: 10.3233/SW-160227, 2017. M. Kleppe, L. Hollink, J. Oomen, M. Kenman, D. Juric, J. Blom, H. Beunders. PoliMedia - Improving the Analyses of Radio & Newspaper coverage of Political Debates. First prize winner of the LinkedUp Veni Competition at the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), Geneva, September 2013. Id be happy to answer any questions L. Hollink, A. Bedjeti, M. van Harmelen and D. Elliott. A Corpus of Images and Text in Online News. In proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portoro転, Slovenia