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Distinguish utterances from written questions (not utterances) and interpellations (not utterances) #296

Open fredrik1984 opened 1 year ago

fredrik1984 commented 1 year ago

In Kammarens protokoll there are a category called written questions (skriftliga frågor) and interpellations (interpellationer). Both are kind of written questions from MPs, often addressing a specific minister. These two categories should not be regarded as utterances since they are not spoken out loud (according to Lotta at the Riksdag Library. The answers to these questions, however, are utterances.

The problem is that the introduction of written questions and interpellations are often similar to the form of introduction of speakers. This seems to especially be the case in the 1970s and 1980s. Here are some examples:

https://betalab.kb.se/prot-1975--19/prot_1975__19-039.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-197677--84/prot_197677__84-117.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-197677--31/prot_197677__31-045.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-197879--37/prot_197879__37-028.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-197980--30/prot_197980__30-108.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198182--3/prot_198182__3-035.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198384--56/prot_198384__56-011.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198687--28/prot_198687__28-020.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198788--20/prot_198788__20-027.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198990--35/prot_198990__35-169.jp2/_view https://betalab.kb.se/prot-198990--1/prot_198990__1-021.jp2/_view

I think one can solve some of these by simple rules:

The introduction of speakers does not start with e.g. "1981/82:309"

The introduction of speakers does not start with e.g. "Nr 76 av"

From 1980, all utterances seem to start with "Anf." followed by an utterance number and name and party. Hence, this should be a good rule to implement to exclude all other instances that do not start in this way.

fredrik1984 commented 10 months ago

check #49