Political Debates: Opening up debates to political science researchers

This Zenodo submission contains a poster and a demo video produced within the SNSF Spark Grant “Debating Human Rights” (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/221139). The materials present the Debates Analytics deliverable developed as part of this broader project. Debates Analytics is a modular platform designed for the large-scale analysis of video and audio debates, supporting the full workflow from raw multimedia ingestion to searchable, structured analytics. The system combines AI-based transcription and speaker diarization with human-in-the-loop correction and annotation, enabling transparent and reproducible analysis of spoken content. Initially applied to the analysis of United Nations Human Rights Council debates, the approach is generalizable to other debate-driven and policy-oriented contexts. The poster and demo video illustrate the system architecture, processing pipeline, and user-facing capabilities. Debates Analytics documentation is available at https://sdsc-ordes.github.io/debates-analytics/index.html