Publications (57)
Fair Representation in Parliamentary Summaries: Measuring and Mitigating Inclusion Bias
Eoghan Cunningham, James Cross, Derek Greene
The The use of Large language models (LLMs) to summarise parliamentary proceedings presents a promising means of increasing the accessibility of democratic participation. However,…
Exploring the Political Agenda of the European Parliament Using a Dynamic Topic Modeling Approach
Derek Greene, James P. Cross
This study analyzes the political agenda of the European Parliament (EP) plenary, how it has evolved over time, and the manner in which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) ha…
Adaptive Representations for Tracking Breaking News on Twitter
Igor Brigadir, Derek Greene, Pádraig Cunningham
Twitter is often the most up-to-date source for finding and tracking breaking news stories. Therefore, there is considerable interest in developing filters for tweet streams in ord…
How Many Topics? Stability Analysis for Topic Models
Derek Greene, Derek O'Callaghan, Pádraig Cunningham
Topic modeling refers to the task of discovering the underlying thematic structure in a text corpus, where the output is commonly presented as a report of the top terms appearing i…
Supporting the Curation of Twitter User Lists
Derek Greene, Fergal Reid, Gavin Sheridan +1
Twitter introduced lists in late 2009 as a means of curating tweets into meaningful themes. Lists were quickly adopted by media companies as a means of organising content around ne…
Evaluating LLM-Driven Summarisation of Parliamentary Debates with Computational Argumentation
Eoghan Cunningham, Derek Greene, James Cross +1
Understanding how policy is debated and justified in parliament is a fundamental aspect of the democratic process. However, the volume and complexity of such debates mean that outs…