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language: en
tags:
- text-classification
- parliamentary-data
- deberta
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# PQ Heading Classifier (DeBERTa v3 small)

This model assigns existing official thematic headings to Parliamentary Questions (PQs).

## What this model does
- Supervised classification
- Chooses from a fixed set of headings
- Does not generate text

## Training data
- ~220,000 historical Parliamentary Questions (2022–2025)
- Inputs: question text + department
- Labels: official headings

## Intended use
Decision-support tool for semi-automated classification with human oversight.