The first version of the LAWPOL Politiikkapöytä has been released! With the new Politiikkapöytä application, users can comprehensively explore documents related to Finnish politics and legislation. Politiikkapöytä includes political and legislative materials such as government proposals, parliamentary plenary speeches, and statements on legislative drafts — spanning as far back as 1907 up to the present day. In addition, the powerful search engine of Politiikkapöytä allows users to examine documents based on, for example, the government term, individual members of parliament, or working groups. The platform’s versatile tools support in-depth and precise data analysis.
The first tools released in the Politiikkapöytä allow users to generate n-grams from the dataset and explore networks formed by the documents. Politiikkapöytä is under active development in terms of both available datasets and data mining tools. In the future, it will also support features such as keyword-in-context (KWIC) searches, the identification of rhetorical strategies, sentiment analysis, and assessments of the content similarity between documents.
Politiikkapöytä offers valuable benefits for a wide range of users. For researchers, the application opens new possibilities for analyzing politics and legislation, making it more efficient to access and process extensive datasets. Journalists can quickly find relevant information for their reporting and provide well-grounded background analysis. The general public also benefits from the platform, as it makes political decision-making and law drafting more transparent and accessible.
LAWPOL Politiikkapöytä is available at www.politiikkapoyta.fi. Welcome to explore this new service that brings political decision-making and legislative drafting closer to everyone!