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New Dataset Analyzes Political Questioning Strategies in Congress

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

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic dataset and methodology for analyzing political discourse, fitting the research bucket. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Manjari Rudra, Daniel Magleby, Sujoy Sikdar ·

    C-QUERI: Congressional Questions, Exchanges, and Responses in Institutions Dataset

    arXiv:2509.21548v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Questions in political interviews and hearings serve strategic purposes beyond information gathering including advancing partisan narratives and shaping public perceptions. However, these strategic aspects remain understud…