@inproceedings{kuzman-pungersek-etal-2026-supercharging,
    title = "Supercharging Agenda Setting Research: The {P}arla{CAP} Dataset of 28 {E}uropean Parliaments and a Scalable Multilingual {LLM}-Based Classification",
    author = "Kuzman Punger{\v{s}}ek, Taja  and
      Rupnik, Peter  and
      {\v{S}}irini{\'c}, Daniela  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola",
    editor = "Afli, Haithem  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi  and
      Ghannay, Sahar  and
      Hossain, Shehenaz",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences ({P}olitical{NLP} 2026)",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/cawl-year/2026.politicalnlp-1.11/",
    doi = "10.63317/4t2m5y2szdw8",
    pages = "94--110",
    abstract = "This paper introduces ParlaCAP, a large-scale dataset for analyzing parliamentary agenda setting across Europe, and proposes a cost-effective method for building domain-specific policy topic classifiers. Applying the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) schema to the multilingual ParlaMint corpus of over 8 million speeches from 28 parliaments of European countries and autonomous regions, we follow a teacher-student framework in which a high-performing large language model (LLM) annotates in-domain training data and a multilingual encoder model is fine-tuned on these annotations for scalable data annotation. We show that this approach produces a classifier tailored to the target domain. Agreement between the LLM and human annotators is comparable to inter-annotator agreement among humans, and the resulting model outperforms existing CAP classifiers trained on manually-annotated but out-of-domain data. In addition to the CAP annotations, the ParlaCAP dataset offers rich speaker and party metadata, as well as sentiment predictions coming from the ParlaSent multilingual transformer model, enabling comparative research on political attention and representation across countries. We illustrate the analytical potential of the dataset with three use cases, examining the distribution of parliamentary attention across policy topics, sentiment patterns in parliamentary speech, and gender differences in policy attention."
}