LLMs measure parliamentary discourse's epistemic orientation, linking it to democracy

Researchers have developed a new method called the Evidence-Minus-Intuition (EMI) score to measure epistemic orientation in political discourse. This score, derived from large language model ratings and semantic similarity, analyzes speech segments to distinguish between evidence-based reasoning and intuition-based reasoning. Applying this to millions of parliamentary speeches across seven countries from 1946 to 2025, the study found that a higher EMI score correlates positively with deliberative democracy and better governance outcomes, including law transparency and implementation. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel LLM-based metric for analyzing political discourse, potentially enabling new avenues for research in political science and computational social science.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a new methodology for analyzing political discourse using LLMs.

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• 1946
• 2025
• arXiv
• Evidence--Minus--Intuition (EMI) score
• large language model

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