Architecture

The Parliamentary Question Responder is built on a modular, cloud-based architecture designed for security, scalability, and with an ingestion mechanism from government systems.

Key Components

This architecture ensures that the Parliamentary Question Responder can be deployed securely within government environments while providing the flexibility to adapt to specific departmental needs and workflows.

Data Ingestion Layer

• Connects to government data sources (in this case https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk)
• Processes and indexes the parliament questions into knowledge bases.
• The data can be periodically refreshed to ensure access to the latest published answers.

AI Processing Engine

• Leverages Amazon Bedrock’s generative AI capabilities to performance semantic search for identifying similar questions, or draft responses against guidelines and parliament documentation.
• Maintains context awareness across indexed data sources.

Response Generation System

• Creates draft responses following parliamentary writing conventions.
• Maintains citation links to source documents.

API Integration Framework

• RESTful APIs for seamless integration with existing workflow systems
• Secure authentication and authorization controls

User Interface Layer

• Intuitive web-based interface for analysts
• Secure access managed through Amazon Cognito