DiSeCan: A tool for consulting parliamentary sessions journals using linguistic intelligent text search (InteLiText)

Abstract

In representative democracies, parliaments hold legislative power, drafting laws and overseeing governments. Access to parliamentary proceedings empowers citizens and strengthens democracy. This document introduces DiSeCan, an online tool facilitating searches in the Session Journals of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. DiSeCan offers various search methods including string-based and lexical searches, and users can filter results using metadata like speaker and session number.