Presentation given during the First Talk of Europe Travelling CLARIN Campus workshop held in Hilversum (NL), 8th October 2014.

1. Linking the European debates to
the Italian Parliament data:
research opportunities and tools
Silvia Giannini – Politecnico di Bari (IT)
Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus
Hilversum, 6 – 10 October 2014

2. The Italian Parliament (IP)
• Legislative power

3. The Chamber of Deputies Linked Open Data
• 490.554.781 triples updated every day*
• Description of biographical data, parliamentary
mandates, parliamentary bodies, laws and acts drafts,
debates, votes, elections, etc. of all the XVII legislatures
• OWL ontology for domain specific Classes and
predicates, FOAF and DC vocabularies for metadata
description
• Public SPARQL endpoint (http://dati.camera.it/sparql)
• Senate LOD under development (http://dati.senato.it/)
*Source: http://dati.camera.it/it/ - English version: http://data.camera.it/data/en/ - 07.10.2014

4. Applications over IP open data
• Historical Portal and Institutional Atlas
(http://data.camera.it/data/en/apps/)
• Code4Italy
(http://dati.camera.it/it/hackathon/)
• Openpolis Association
(http://openpolis.it/eng/)

5. Historical Portal and Institutional Atlas

6. Code4Italy - SocialCamera
http://opensocial.camera/

7. Code4Italy - PaLmaS
http://sinatra.cirsfid.unibo.it/code4italynew/

8. Code4Italy – Camera4DUMMIES
http://marcoslin.github.io/Code4Italy/#/home

9. openpolis

10. Openpolis - openparlamento

11. Openpolis - openparlamento
• Open Politicians: who our representatives, from the
smallest Italian municipality to the European
Parliament, are and what they are doing and saying

12. Openpolis - openparlamento
• Open Politicians: who our representatives, from the
smallest Italian municipality to the European
Parliament, are and what they are doing and saying

13. Openpolis - openpolitici
• You Are Here: by comparing your opinion on major political issues
to those of the candidates, it helps you to find out who are the
closest and farthest candidates to you in European, national and
local elections

14. ‘’Persona’’ dataset
• The registry of persons graph (persona.rdf) includes
deputies, senators and non-parliamentary members of
the government

15. ToE Speaker/IP Person Alignment
• 458 instances of Speaker representing the Italian
country (EUCountry_IT)
• Alignment using foaf:givenName,
foaf:familyName and lp:dateBirth
properties
• 210 exact matches (47 DBpedia, 24 Italian
Dbpedia, 13 Freebase links)
• 5 homonyms manually resolved
• 243 missing links (a EP eligible deputy is every
Italian citizen older than 25 years)

16. • Every elected deputy joins a Parliamentary group that
reflects its party ideas (it does not always coincide with
the national party)
‘’Deputato’’ dataset

17. Instances Alignment (2/2)
• 59 different National Italian parties in the ToE
dataset associated with Italian speakers
• 55 new links between 39 Italian speakers in
the ToE dataset and the corresponding Italian
Parliamentary groups they were member of.
• The information is available till 2001 (with lex
07/04/2004 it is prohibited to hold a national
mandate together with a European one)

18. Information Integration
• DEMO (http://193.204.59.20/toe/fini.html)1
• Analyze non-attendace rate with numbers of
concurring appointments2
1 Realized with http://timeline.knightlab.com/
2http://www.votewatch.eu/blog/europarlamento-italia-brilla-per-assenteismo-alle-votazioni/

19. Clustering RDF datasets
• Algorithm based on Common Subsumers (CSs) extraction (the
most specific description shared by two RDF resources)
S. Colucci, S. Giannini, F.M. Donini, E. Di Sciascio, Finding Commonalities in Linked Open Data, Proceedings of the 29th Italian
Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2014), Torino, Italy, June 2014, pp. 37 – 42

20. Clustering RDF datasets
Deputies Nilde Iotti (ocd:d3140_10) and Tina Anselmi (ocd:d270_10) of the 10th Legislature

21. Clustering RDF datasets

22. SELECT DISTINCT ?x0
WHERE{
?x0 a <http://dati.camera.it/ocd/deputato> .
?x0 <http://dati.camera.it/ocd/rif_leg>
<http://dati.camera.it/ocd/legislatura.rdf/repubblica_10> .
?x0 <http://dati.camera.it/ocd/rif_mandatoCamera> ?x1 .
?x0 <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender> female .
?x0 <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description>
Laurea in lettere; insegnante@it .
}
Clustering RDF datasets

23. Clustering RDF datasets
Clusters of Deputies from the 1st Legislature

24. Enriching the ToE dataset
• Several AgendaItem instances have the same title over
years
• Track the evolution of topics in debates related by the same
title
• Triplifying speeches text
• Tools: LDA package, TextRazor API
• Output:
- Topics for sets of Speech instances with same date and title
- Wikipedia/DBpedia pages describing the extracted topics
In collaboration with Albert Meroño – VU Amsterdam (NL)