DECIDON — NER on parliamentary debates

Status: in progress

Last update: 20/10/2026

Progress: NER system selected; scaling up to the full corpus.

Research internship (ANR project DECIDON): named-entity recognition on Third Republic parliamentary debates.

Objective

Research internship (May – December 2026) on the ANR project DECIDON (EPITA · ENC · EHESS), a computational study of parliamentary life under the Third Republic (1870-1940): how public problems circulate between the press and Parliament, and agenda-setting mechanisms. My contribution focuses on named-entity recognition (NER) (WP3) in the debates of the Journal officiel.

Done

• Annotation guide and schema, coordination of the annotation effort (Label Studio).
• Benchmark of six families of approaches (rules, spaCy, BERT, GLiNER, LLMs, ensembles); a voting system was selected for deployment.
• Relation extraction (function → person).
• OCR and structuring of the Journal officiel name indexes (1881-1939).

Next steps

• Deployment on the 1881-1940 debates.
• Impresso@BnF datathon with the DECIDON team (28-30/10/2026).

Progress log

• 05/2026: internship begins; annotation schema.
• 06-09/2026: benchmark of NER approaches, technical report written.
• 10/2026: deployment system chosen; name indexes.

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