Hansard Explorer

🏛️ Explore Parliamentary debates

Hansard is the official report of all Parliamentary debates.

This project processes the data from the My Society parlparse parser. This parser generates XML files in ParlParse format, containing debates, petititons and divisons.

This project uses this XML data as a source in order to:

• Convert it to json which is more practical to work with
• Detect key entities contained in debates such as organisations, committees and people
• Disambiguate entities - e.g. HMRC and His Majesty's Revenue and Customs refer to the same entity

References

• ParlParse parser
• ParlParse dataset format