1In democratic countries, a parliament is a central representative and legislative institution. Digital transcripts of parliamentary sessions are a unique research source as they reflect the political, societal, and cultural atmosphere of a certain period. The transcripts are typically available in the form of parliamentary corpora.

2In this tutorial, we will analyse the transcripts of parliamentary debates ParlaMint, for which we will employ advanced automatic analytical techniques, specifically topic modelling. The aim of the tutorial is to introduce researchers in the humanities and social sciences to text mining, showing the value of such approaches for research in these scientific fields. The tutorial breaks down the particularities of parliamentary discourse and topic modelling by answering concrete research questions.