# What Does the Indian Parliament Discuss? An Exploratory Analysis of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00235 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.00235/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 35 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 1 Apr 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.4546/) (2013)
- [Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1601.00670/) (2016)
- [The Dynamic Embedded Topic Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.05545/) (2019)
- [Exploring the Political Agenda of the European Parliament Using a Dynamic Topic Modeling Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.03055/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [GINopic: Topic Modeling with Graph Isomorphism Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.02115/) (2024)
- [DTECT: Dynamic Topic Explorer & Context Tracker](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.07910/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The TCPD-IPD dataset is a collection of questions and answers discussed in the Lower House of the Parliament of India during the Question Hour between 1999 and 2019. Although it is difficult to analyze such a huge collection manually, modern text analysis tools can provide a powerful means to navigate it. In this paper, we perform an exploratory analysis of the dataset. In particular, we present insightful corpus-level statistics and a detailed analysis of three subsets of the dataset. In the latter analysis, the focus is on understanding the temporal evolution of topics using a dynamic topic model. We observe that the parliamentary conversation indeed mirrors the political and socio-economic tensions of each period.