Hansard motion policies

This dataset is designed for the testing of automatic opinion-topic classification systems. For experiments performed using this data, see: Abercrombie, G. and Batista-Navarro, R., (2018). "Identifying Opinion-Topics and Polarity of Parliamentary Debate Motions". In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) The dataset consists of 592 UK parliamentary debate motions proposed in the UK House of Commons between 1997 and 2018 as well as the 'policy' categories that the votes on these motions have been classified as by the publicwhip.org.uk . It also includes metadata related to the debates that the motions were extracted from and the speakers who proposed them. The dataset is presented as a csv file, where each column represents a motion and includes the following columns: ID, "[date, speaker, party, title, motion, additional_information, party_array, date_continuous, policy 1087, policy 1065, policy 6709, policy 826, policy 6695, policy 6670, policy 1074, policy 1030, policy 1053, policy 856, policy 1110, policy 1051, policy 6694]" ID = unique identification number from 0 to 591 data = the date on which the motion was proposed speaker = the name of the MP who proposed the motion party = party affiliation of the MP who proposed the motion title = the title of the debate from which the motion is taken motion = the textual content of the motion additional_information = information such as the names of relevant documents or explanations of amendments is sometimes included in the transcripts, preceding the motion. party_array = one hot encoding of the party feature: ['Con', 'Lab', 'LD', 'None', 'SNP', 'DUP', 'PC'] data_continuous = date feature scaled between 0.0 and 1.0 policies = one hot encoding of the policy labels: policy 1087: "Asylum System — More strict" policy 1065: "European Union — For" policy 6709: "Further devolution to Scotland" policy 826: "Homosexuality — Equal rights" policy 6695: "More powers for local councils" policy 6670: "Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits" policy 1074: "Schools — Greater Autonomy" policy 1030: "Stop climate change" policy 1053: "Terrorism laws — For" policy 856: "Shift Powers from MPs in the Commons to Ministers" policy 1110: "Increase VAT" policy 1051: "Identity cards — For introduction" policy 6694: "Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks" Textual and metadata were extracted from https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pwdata/scrapedxml/debates/. Policy data were extracted from https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/policies.php. This dataset contains parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0: https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/本数据集专为自动观点-主题分类系统的测试任务而设计。使用本数据集开展的相关实验详见：Abercrombie G与Batista-Navarro R于2018年发表的《识别议会辩论动议的观点主题与极性》，收录于第九届主观性、情感与社交媒体分析计算方法研讨会（9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis，简称WASSA）论文集。 本数据集包含1997年至2018年间英国下议院提出的592条议会辩论动议，以及由publicwhip.org.uk为这些动议的投票所归类的"政策"类别。此外，数据集还涵盖动议所属辩论的相关元数据，以及提出动议的议员信息。 本数据集以逗号分隔值（CSV）文件形式存储，每一列对应一条动议，包含以下字段：ID、date、speaker、party、title、motion、additional_information、party_array、date_continuous、policy 1087、policy 1065、policy 6709、policy 826、policy 6695、policy 6670、policy 1074、policy 1030、policy 1053、policy 856、policy 1110、policy 1051、policy 6694。 各字段详细说明如下： ID：取值范围为0至591的唯一识别编号； date：动议提出的日期； speaker：提出动议的下议院议员（Member of Parliament, MP）姓名； party：提出动议的议员所属政党； title：动议所属辩论的标题； motion：动议的文本内容； additional_information：辩论实录中有时会在动议前附带相关文档名称或修正案说明等补充信息； party_array：政党特征的独热编码（One-Hot Encoding），对应标签列表为['Con'（保守党）、'Lab'（工党）、'LD'（自由民主党）、'None'（无党派）、'SNP'（苏格兰民族党）、'DUP'（民主统一党）、'PC'（威尔士党）]； date_continuous：缩放至0.0至1.0区间的日期特征； policies：政策标签的独热编码，各政策标签详情如下： policy 1087："庇护制度——更严格管控"； policy 1065："欧盟——支持"； policy 6709："进一步向苏格兰下放权力"； policy 826："同性恋——平等权利"； policy 6695："赋予地方议会更多权力"； policy 6670："削减福利开支"； policy 1074："学校——扩大自治权"； policy 1030："应对气候变化"； policy 1053："反恐法案——支持"； policy 856："将下议院议员权力转移至内阁大臣"； policy 1110："提高增值税（VAT）"； policy 1051："身份证制度——支持推行"； policy 6694："提高酒类饮品税率"。 本数据集的文本与元数据提取自https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pwdata/scrapedxml/debates/，政策数据提取自https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/policies.php。 本数据集包含的议会信息采用开放议会许可v3.0（Open Parliament Licence v3.0）授权，许可详情见https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/