Finally, our work contributes to a rapidly growing area of NLP applications to political domains (Monroe et al., 2008;Card et al., 2016;Gonzalez-Bailon et al., 2010;Niculae et al., 2015;Grimmer and Stewart, 2013;Grimmer et al., 2012;Iyyer et al., 2014b, inter alia).
relevant are applications to discourse in congressional and parliamentary settings (Thomas et al., 2006;Boydstun et al., 2014;Rheault et al., 2016).