C-QUERI: Congressional Questions, Exchanges, and Responses in Institutions Dataset
Researchers have developed a new pipeline to extract question-answer pairs from unstructured congressional hearing transcripts, creating the C-QUERI dataset. This dataset, spanning the 108th to 117th Congress, reveals systematic differences in questioning strategies between political parties. The analysis indicates that a questioner's party affiliation can be predicted solely from their questions, offering a new framework for analyzing question-answering interactions in various interview-like settings. AI