We additionally provide a qualitative validation of our framework by comparing the questionasking activity of government and oppositionaffiliated MPs-as viewed through the extracted question types-to well-established characterizations of these affiliations in the political science literature.
prior work has examined the bifurcation in behavior between government and opposition members, in their differing focus on various issues (Louwerse, 2012), and in settings such as roll call votes (Cowley, 2002;Spirling and McLean, 2007;Eggers and Spirling, 2014).