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@inProceedings{ohberg-etal-2022-unifying-324073,
	title        = {Unifying or Divisive Threats? Anxiety about Political Terrorism and Extremism among the Swedish Public and Parliamentarians, 1986–2020},
	abstract     = {This paper contributes to the history of political terrorism through a data-driven study of the worry about the threat of terrorism and political extremism among the Swedish public and in the Parliament, 1986–2020. The aim is to explore the intersection of public opinion as expressed in national survey data and data on political action in the form of motions by Members of the Parliament (MPs), focusing on trends over time and the significance of political sympathies. Our study points to the impact of the attacks in the USA in 2001 and the wave of Islamist terror attacks from 2014 and onwards on both the public’s anxiety and the MP’s activity. It also shows the significance of political sympathies in this context with both citizens and MPs on the right being more worried about terrorism than those on the left, whereas the pattern is repeated in reverse when it comes to worry about political extremism. Through the investigation we highlight the benefits of combining parliamentary data and survey data as well as the importance of the parliamentary context, in exploring the relationship between public opinion and MPs activity on terrorism. An underlying argument is that the analysis of parliamentary data should be grounded in the context of the institutional and historical framework of the political system. },
	booktitle    = {DHNB 2022: Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), Uppsala, Sweden, March 15-18, 2022, CEUR-WS vol. 3232 },
	author       = {Öhberg, Patrik and Brodén, Daniel and Fridlund, Mats and Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor and Ängsal, Magnus Pettersson},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {CEUR-WS.org},
	address      = {Aachen},
}

@incollection{fridlund-etal-2022-trawling-319822,
	title        = {Trawling and Trolling for Terrorists in the Digital Gulf of Bothnia: Cross-lingual Text Mining for the Emergence of Terrorism in Swedish and Finnish Newspapers, 1780–1926},
	abstract     = {In pursuing the historical emergence of the discourse on terrorism, this study trawls the “digital Gulf of Bothnia” in the form of a corpus of combined Swedish and Finnish digitized newspaper texts. Through a cross-lingual exploration of the uses of the concept of terrorism in historical Swedish and Finnish news, we examine meanings anchored in the two culturally close but still decidedly different national political contexts. The study is an outcome of an integrative interdisciplinary effort by Swe-Clarin, using resources accessible through the CLARIN infrastructure to enrich scholarship in the humanities. The capabilities of the corpus tool Korp enable us to affirm prior research on the conceptual history of terrorism, but also to suggest a complex and diverse picture of the connotations of terrorism, both as state and sub-state violence up until the 20th century. At the same time, the study allows us to explore the potentials of cross-lingual text mining for historical analysis of national online newspaper corpora provided by Swe-Clarin and FIN-CLARIN.},
	booktitle    = {CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources, eds. Darja Fišer & Andreas Witt},
	author       = {Fridlund, Mats and Brodén, Daniel and Jauhiainen, Tommi and Malkki, Leena and Olsson, Leif-Jöran and Borin, Lars},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {De Gruyter Mouton},
	address      = {Berlin, Boston},
	ISBN         = {9783110767346},
	pages        = {781--802},
}

@inProceedings{ingvarsson-etal-2022-order-324051,
	title        = {The New Order of Criticism. Explorations of Book Reviews Between the Interpretative and Algorithmic},
	abstract     = {The New Order of Criticism (2020–2024) is a mixed-methods project combining algorithmic
and interpretative approaches to the study of literary criticism. The project expands on a prior
study of Swedish book reviews from the years 1906, 1956 and 2006 (‘The Order of Criticism’,
Samuelsson 2013), re-examining and re-evaluating the original results through the uses of
computational tools, language technology and big data. The aim of the present paper is to
discuss early experiences and results from the interdisciplinary approach utilized by the current
project, a collaborative process where interpreter and programmer are in dialogue, and where
methodologies, and their instantiation in tools, are reflexively discussed from an
epistemological point of view. In our analysis we ask: How can insights from working with
digital methodologies and tools inform traditional scholarship on literary criticism? How can
interpretative approaches and results inform digital methods?},
	booktitle    = {Digital Humanities in Action: The Sixth Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries conference},
	author       = {Ingvarsson, Jonas and Brodén, Daniel and Samuelsson, L and Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor and Zechner, Niklas},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {CEUR-WS},
	address      = {Aachen},
}

@inProceedings{ingvarsson-etal-2022-order-323627,
	title        = {The New Order of Criticism. Explorations of Book Reviews
Between the Interpretative and Algorithmic},
	booktitle    = {Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference},
	author       = {Ingvarsson, Jonas and Brodén, Daniel and Samuelsson, Lina and Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor and Zechner, Niklas},
	year         = {2022},
}

@incollection{fridlund-etal-2022-diachrony-320191,
	title        = {The Diachrony of Political Terror: Tracing Terror and Terrorism in Swedish Parliamentary Data 1867–1970},
	abstract     = {The paper explores the development of the closely related words ‘terror’ and ‘terrorism’ as manifested
in the discourse of the Swedish Parliament, 1867–1970, drawing on digital history and
language technology methodologies and tools. Combining distant and close reading, we show
that terror-related words first gained traction from 1918 and onwards. The recorded uses of words
and compounds indicate that terror-related phenomena were often associated with states rather
than individuals, but also that terror-related words have been used metaphorically in relation to
non-violent domestic issues. Our results confirm the argument that the word terrorism primarily
gained its modern meaning in the early 1970s. We conclude by stressing the potential of combining
LT-driven and interpretative approaches for investigating the diachronicity of words in
Parliamentary corpora.},
	booktitle    = {Live and Learn: Festschrift in Honor of Lars Borin, eds. Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg & Shafqat Virk},
	author       = {Fridlund, Mats and Brodén, Daniel and Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {Göteborgs universitet},
	address      = {Göteborg},
	ISBN         = {978-91-87850-82-0},
	pages        = {43--47},
}

@inProceedings{edlund-etal-2022-multimodal-311480,
	title        = {A Multimodal Digital Humanities Study of Terrorism in Swedish Politics: An Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Project on the Configuration of Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates, Legislation, and Policy Networks 1968–2018},
	abstract     = {This paper presents the design of one of Sweden’s largest digital humanities projects, SweTerror, that through an interdisciplinary multi-modal methodological approach develops an extensive speech-to-text digital HSS resource. SweTerror makes a major contribution to the study of terrorism in Sweden through a comprehensive mixed methods study of the political discourse on terrorism since the late 1960s. Drawing on artificial intelligence in the form of state-of-the-art language and speech technology, it systematically analyses all forms of relevant parliamentary utterances. It explores and curates an exhaustive but understudied multi-modal collection of primary sources of central relevance to Swedish democracy: the audio recordings of the Swedish Parliament’s debates. The project studies the framing of terrorism both as policy discourse and enacted politics, examining semantic and emotive components of the parliamentary discourse on terrorism as well as major actors and social networks involved. It covers political responses to a range of terrorism-related issues as well as factors influencing policy-makers’ engagement, including political affiliations and gender. SweTerror also develops an online research portal, featuring the complete research material and searchable audio made readily accessible for further exploration. Long-term, the project establishes a model for combining extraction technologies (speech recognition and analysis) for audiovisual parliamentary data with text mining and HSS interpretive methods and the portal is designed to serve as a prototype for other similar projects.},
	booktitle    = { Intelligent Systems and Applications. Proceedings of the 2021 Intelligent Systems Conference, September 2–3, 2021 / Arai K. (eds) },
	author       = {Edlund, Jens and Brodén, Daniel and Fridlund, Mats and Lindhé , Cecilia and Olsson, Leif-Jöran and Ängsal, Magnus Pettersson and Öhberg, Patrik},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {Springer},
	address      = {Cham},
	ISBN         = {978-3-030-82195-1},
}

@inProceedings{angsal-etal-2022-linguistic-318676,
	title        = {Linguistic Framing of Political Terror: Distant and Close Readings of the Discourse on Terrorism in the Swedish Parliament 1993–2018},
	abstract     = {This paper provides a study of the discourse on terrorism in Swedish parliamentary debate 1993–
2018. The aim is to explore how terrorism is discursively constructed in parliamentary delibera-
tions, drawing on the resources of Swe-Clarin in the form of the corpus tool Korp and the linguis-
tic concept of ‘frame’. To map meanings attached to terrorism we pursue two research questions:
what framing elements are connected to ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ in parliamentary speeches as
1) simplexes and 2) as part of compounds along the lines of controversies and party affiliations?
The latter research question is probed through distant and close readings of the specific compound
statsterrorism (‘state terrorism’). Our findings show that terrorism is typically framed as located
outside of Sweden and as tied to Islamism, but the question of what countries are associated with
state terrorism depends on the political affiliation of the interlocutor. The compound statsterror-
ism is most prominently used by the left and green parties and then commonly associated with
Israel and Turkey. We conclude by suggesting that a widened inquiry into compounds, in general
as well as diachronically, is likely a productive way of expanding the scope of our research.},
	booktitle    = {CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 10–12 October 2022, Prague, Czechia. Eds. Tomaž Erjavec & Maria Eskevich},
	author       = {Ängsal, Magnus Pettersson and Brodén, Daniel and Fridlund, Mats and Olsson, Leif-Jöran and Öhberg, Patrik},
	year         = {2022},
	address      = {Prag},
}

@inProceedings{fridlund-etal-2022-codifying-315876,
	title        = {Codifying the Debates of the Riksdag: Towards a Framework for Semi-automatic Annotation of Swedish Parliamentary Discourse},
	abstract     = {This study provides an exploratory attempt to develop a framework for how to semi-automatically
annotate salient topics in Swedish parliamentary debate. The discussion is grounded in the ongoing
digital humanities project SweTerror that studies the terrorism discourse in the Riksdag 1968–2018
through a mixed-methods approach. The paper presents our tentative framework through its three
main categories: metadata, language data and frame data. While the first two categories are mostly
generic and their data could mainly be automatically extracted, the third category is contextual and
requires manual interpretation. We discuss the design of the latter through the theoretical concept
of ‘framing’ and illustrate the framework’s overall principles through a case study of utterances in
the debates 1968–1970 concerning terrorism. We conclude by suggesting that it may be more
generally applicable for studies of parliamentary debates in HSS research if further modified for the
particular research purposes. },
	booktitle    = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Matti La Mela, Fredrik Norén & Eero Hyvönen, eds., Proceedings of Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDa 2022). Workshop Co-located with the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), Uppsala, Sweden, March 15, 2022.},
	author       = {Fridlund, Mats and Brodén, Daniel and Olsson, Leif-Jöran and Ängsal, Magnus Pettersson},
	year         = {2022},
	publisher    = {CEUR-WS},
	address      = {Aachen},
}