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Parliamentary Corpora

Parliamentary corpora are a very important multidisciplinary language resource that can be approached from many research perspectives, including not only political science, but also sociology, history, psychology, and applicative approaches to linguistics, for instance, critical discourse analysis. The good availability of parliamentary proceedings in digitized form and granted access rights to public information in the EU countries have motivated a number of national as well as international initiatives to compile, process and analyse parliamentary corpora.

The CLARIN ERIC infrastructure offers access to 35 parliamentary corpora, covering almost all of the languages spoken in countries that are either members or observers in CLARIN . In the vast majority of cases, the corpora can be directly downloaded from the national repositories or queried through easy-to-use online search environments. They are also richly tagged and mostly available under public licences.

Below we first provide overviews of the corpora that are already part of the CLARIN infrastructure and then list those that have not yet been integrated. 

Note that in 2020 a project was launched focussing on parliamentary debates on the COVID-19 outbreak and the policy measures in response to it under the name of ParlaMint. More details can be found below and on the project page for ParlaMint.

For comments, changes of the existing content or inclusion of new corpora, send us an resource-families [at] clarin.eu (email).

 

Parliamentary Corpora in the CLARIN Infrastructure

Corpus Language Description Availability

Linguistically annotated multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates in English ParlaMint-en.ana 3.0

Size: 1.1 billion words
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged (Universal Dependencies), syntactically parsed (Universal Dependencies), named entities
Licence: CC BY 4.0

Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Modern Greek (1453-), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

This corpus comprises linguistically annotated multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates ParlaMint.ana 3.0 which were machine translated to English and the translation linguistically annotated.

Except for the translation to English, small changes in the metadata and the absence of the British parliament corpus, the corpora included in this entry are in all respects identical to the source language corpora, i.e. the entry comprises the same 26 European parliamentary corpora, together with over 1.1 billion words. The translation to English was done with EasyNMT withOPUS-MT models. Machine translation was done on the sentence level, and includes both speeches and transcriber notes, including headings. The linguistic annotation of the speeches, i.e. tokenisation, tagging with UD PoS and morphological features, lemmatisation, and NER annotation was done with Stanza , using the English language model. For NER the conll03 model with 4 NE classes was used.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository and for browsing through concordancers noSketchEngine and KonText.

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Linguistically annotated multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates ParlaMint.ana 3.0

Size: 7.5 million utterances, 1.1 billion words
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged (Universal Dependencies), syntactically parsed (Universal Dependencies), named entities
Licence: CC BY 4.0

Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Modern Greek (1453-), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

ParlaMint is a multilingual set of comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mostly starting at the end of 2015 and extending to mid 2022, with each corpus being between 9 and 125 million words in size. The sessions in the corpora are marked as belonging to the COVID-19 period (after October 2019), the pre-Covid period or the period after 24 February 2022.

The corpora have extensive meta-data about the speakers (name, gender, party affiliation, MP status), are structured into time-stamped terms, sessions and meetings, with each speech being marked by its speaker and their role (chair, regular speaker). The speeches also contain marked-up transcriber comments, such as gaps in the transcription, interruptions, applause, etc.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository and through the concordancer noSketch Engine. Note that the version of the corpus without linguistic mark-up is available for download under a separate CLARIN.SI entry.

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The sentiment corpus of parliamentary debates ParlaSent-BCS v1.0

Size: 2600 sentences
Annotation: sentiment analysis
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

This corpus consists of mid-length sentences from the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian parliamentary proceedings that are annotated with a 6-level sentiment schema. The date of the speech and the speaker name are given as well. If the speaker is MP, information on party, gender and year of birth are available as well.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository.

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Croatian parliamentary corpus ParlaMeter-hr9 1.0

Size: 14.1 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, lemmatised, named entities
Licence: CC-BY

Croatian

The corpus contains minutes of the National Assembly of the Republic of Croatia and currently covers its VIth mandate from 15 November 2016 to 21 Nomveber 2018. The corpus contains speaker metadata (gender, age, education, party affiliation).

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository and through the concordancers KonText and noSketchEngine, as well as through a dedicated webpage.

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Parliamentary corpus of first Yugoslavia (1919-1939) yu1Parl 1.0

Size: 34,542 utterances; 578,958 sentences; 13,271,885 words; 15,403 pages
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CC BY 4.0

Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

This historical parliamentary corpus contains meeting proceedings of the National Representation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 191 to 1939. The corpus comprises 714 sessions.

The source data (scanned images of printed Stenographic Minutes) come from the History of Slovenia - SIstory portal. The images were OCR processed and the results saved as pdf, docx and txt. The documents are multilingual, in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, depending on the speaker. Serbo-Croatian is typeset in the Cyrillic (Serbian) or in the Latin (Croatian) alphabet.

The documents were automatically processed and the following data extracted: titles, agenda, attending, start and end of the session, speakers, and comments. Lingua was used for language detection on the sentence level. Roughly 59% of sentences are in Serbian (Cyrillic script), 38% in Croatian (Latin script) and 3% in Slovenian. Some sentences in German and French were also detected. Linguistic annotation (tokenisation, MSD tagging and lemmatisation) was added using CLASSLA for Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian. Words in Serbian (Cyrillic script) have lemmas in Latin script.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository as well as for online browsing through the noSketch Engine and KonText concordancers.

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Czech Parliamentary Meetings

Size: 88 hours, 0.5 million tokens
Annotation: error correction of transcriptions, division into speech sections with speaker information
Licence: CC-BY

Czech

The corpus contains recordings of the parliamentary sessions as well as corresponding transcriptions.

The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText.

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Large Corpus of Czech Parliament Plenary Hearings

Size: 444 hours
Licence: CC BY 4.0

Czech

This corpus contains audio recordings of Czech parliamentary sessions along with the corresponding transcriptions. The whole corpus has been segmented to short audio snippets making it suitable for both training and evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems.

The corpus is available for download form the LINDAT reposiory.

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The Danish Parliament Corpus 2009 - 2017, v2

Size: 40.6 million words
Annotation: no linguistic annotation
Licence: CC-BY

Danish

The corpus contains Danish parliamentary debates from 2009 to 2017.

The corpus is available for download from the DK-CLARIN repository.

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Hansard corpus

Size: 1.6 billion tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised, semantic tagging

English

The corpus contains British parliamentary debates from 1803 to 2005. It is semantically tagged with the USAS semantic tagger and the Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger (HTST).

The corpus is available through a dedicated concordancer.

For the relevant publication, see Rayson et al. (2015)

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Parliamentary Debates on Europe at the House of Commons (1998-2015)

Size: 190,000 tokens
Annotation: contextual and speaker metadata
Licence: CC-BY

English

The corpus contains British parliamentary debates from 1998 to 2015. The contextual metadata in the corpus concern the dates of the council meetings, the description of the main topic(s) of the European council meeting, the place where the European Council meeting took place; they also correspond to information about the government and the legislative session. The speaker metadata correspond to name, gender, occupation, parliamentary group, political orientation and the opposition and majority division.

The corpus is available for download from Ortolang.

For the relevant publication, see Truan and Romary (2021)

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EPIC-UdS

Size: 350,000 tokens, 20,000 sentences
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, syntactically parsed, speech phenomena
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

English, German, Spanish

This is a parallel and comparable corpus of speeches held in the European Parliament; the corpus follows the European Parliament Interpreting Corpora tradition of the EPIC and EPICG corpora. It contains original speeches from 2008 to 2013 by English, German, and Spanish native speakers and their interpretation (English to and from German; Spanish to English).

All transcripts in the corpus are based on videos of the European Parliament Proceedings published by the European Parliament.

Annotation includes typical characteristics of spoken language such as false starts, hesitations and truncated words. To obtain better results for source-target alignment as well as sentence parsing the transcripts were segmented using a main clause approach: compound sentences were segmented separately. For the second version of the corpus, the transcripts were processed clause by clause with the spaCy tools; the data is encoded in CoNLL-U and provides universal PoS tags, fine-grained language-specific PoS tags as well as Universal Dependency syntactic relations. All data was enriched with relevant metadata such as source language, name of original speaker, speech timing, mode of delivery and delivery rate.

The corpus is available for download from CLARIN-D (Saarland University B-centre).

For the relevant publication, see Przybyl et al. (2022)

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Transcripts of Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament)

Size: 13 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised
Licence: CLARIN_ACA

Estonian

The corpus contains Estonian parliamentary debates from 1995 to 2001.

The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage and through a concordancer on the same webpage.

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Aalto Finnish Parliament ASR Corpus 2008-2020

Size: 119.3 million words, 3,130 hours of recordings
Licence: CLARIN PUB

Finnish

This corpus, which consists of both audio recordings and transcriptions, is extracted from the Finnish parliamentary plenary session transcripts and videos by the Aalto Speech Recognition group. The original session transcripts and videos are available on the websites of the Parliament of Finland (see here and here). The corpus is split into three parts:

  1. the 2015–2020 set
  2. the 2008–2016 set
  3. development and test sets
  4. The corpus is available for download from the Language Bank of Finland.

 

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Plenary Sessions of the Parliament of Finland

Size: 22.4 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, lemmatised, syntactically parsed
Licence: CC-BY

Finnish

The corpus contains Finnish parliamentary debates from 2008 to 2016.

The corpus is available through the concordancer Korp.

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Parliamentary Debates on Europe at the Assemblée nationale (2002-2012)

Size: 137,000 tokens
Annotation: contextual and speaker metadata
Licence: CC-BY

French

The corpus contains French parliamentary debates from 2002 to 2012. The contextual metadata in the corpus concern the dates of the council meetings, the description of the main topic(s) of the European council meeting, the place where the European Council meeting took place; they also correspond to information about the government and the legislative session. The speaker metadata correspond to name, gender, occupation, parliamentary group, political orientation and the opposition and majority division.

The corpus is available for download from Ortolang.

For the relevant publication, see Truan and Romary (2021)

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German Political Speeches Corpus

Size: 15,240 speeches, 27 million texts
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

German

The corpus contains speeches by 200 important political figures for the period between 1982 and 2020.

A large part of the corpus contains speeches by the holders of the four highest German state offices: the Federal President, the Federal Chancellor, the President of the Bundestag and Foreign Ministers with terms of offie between 1982 and 2020.

The corpus is available for online browsing through the DWDS platform and a subset encoded in XML with 6,685 speeches until 2019 can be downloaded.

For the relevant publication, see Barbaresi (2018)

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Parliamentary Debates on Europe at the Bundestag (1998-2015)

Size: 417,000 tokens
Annotation: contextual and speaker metadata
Licence: CC-BY

German

The corpus contains German parliamentary debates from 1998 to 2015. The contextual metadata in the corpus concern the dates of the council meetings, the description of the main topic(s) of the European council meeting, the place where the European Council meeting took place; they also correspond to information about the government and the legislative session. The speaker metadata correspond to name, gender, occupation, parliamentary group, political orientation and the opposition and majority division.

The corpus is available for download from Ortolang.

For the relevant publication, see Truan and Romary (2021)

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ParlAT beta

Size: 75.2 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, linked data (e.g., speaker information)

German (Austrian)

This corpus contains Austrian parliamentary proceedings from 1996 to 2017.

Currently in development, ParlAT is planned to be a monitor corpus with new material added over time.

For the relevant publication, see Wissik and Pirker (2018)

 

Carniolan Provincial Assembly corpus Kranjska 1.0

Size: 10.9 million words
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CC-BY 4.0

German, Slovenian

The corpus contains meeting proceedings of 694 sessions of the Carniolan Provincial Assembly from 1861 to 1913.

The source data (scanned and OCR processed pdf documents) originally come from The Digital Library of Slovenia dLib.si and History of Slovenia - SIstory portals. The documents are bilingual, in Slovenian and German, depending on the speaker. German was first typeset in the Gothic script and later on in Latin.

The documents were automatically processed and the following data extracted: titles, agenda, attending, start and end of the session, speakers, and comments. Language was detected on the sentence level, roughly 58% sentences are in Slovenian and 42% in German. Linguistic annotation (tokenisation, MSD tagging and lemmatisation) was added using Trankit for Slovenian and German, while Lingua is used for language detection.

The documents are in the Parla-CLARIN compliant XML format. Each session in one file.

For the relevant publication, see Marolt et al. (2023)

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Hellenic Parliament Minutes (1989-1994, 1997-2018)

Size: 181 million words
Licence: CC-BY-NC

Greek

The corpus contains Greek parliamentary debates for two periods: 1989-1994 and 1997-2018.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN:el repository.

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Speeches of Politicians in the Greek Parliament

Size: 258,036 words
Licence: CC-BY-NC

Greek

This corpus contains speeches delivered by 5 members of parliament: Dimitris Anagnostakis, Nikos Tsoukalis, Paros Koukoulopoulos, Niki Founta, and Panayiotis Kammenos.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN:el repository.

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European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2011, parallel corpus Greek-English

Size: 31.9 million words (English), 1.2 million sentences (Greek)
Annotation: sentence aligned
Licence: CC ZERO

Greek-English

This corpus is a bilingual Greek-English subset of the Europal parallel corpus.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN:EL repository.

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The Icelandic Parliamentary Corpus

Size: 238 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CC-BY 4.0

Icelandic

This corpus contains debates in the Icelandic parliament (Alþingi) from 1911 to 2017.

The corpus is available for download from CLARIN-IS (as a part of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus) and for search through the concordancer Korp.

For the relevant publication, see Steingrímsson et al. (2018)

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Corpus of the Saeima (the Parliament of Latvia)

Size: 21 million words
Annotation: tokenised, msd-tagged, lemmatised, syntactically parsed, named entities

Latvian

This corpus contains parliamentary debates from seven parliamentary terms (5th–12th Saeima) covering years 1993–2017. The available metadata for each utterance includes the date and type of the parliamentary session and speakers’ names and affiliations.

The corpus is available for online browsing through the noSketch Engine (CLARIN-LV) concordancer.

For the relevant publication, see Darģis et al. (2018)

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Lithuanian Parliament Corpus for Authorship Attribution

Size: 23.9 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CLARIN PUB

Lithuanian

The corpus contains Lithuanian parliamentary debates from 1990 to 2013. It is annotated with Lemuoklis (morphological analyzer for lemmatization) and MaltParser (generation of dependency tags).

The corpus is available for download from the repository of CLARIN-LT.

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Norwegian Parliamentary Speech Corpus

Size: 140 hours; 65,000 sentences; 1.2 million words
Licence: CC-ZERO

Norwegian

This corpus consists of audio recordings of meetings in Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament), and corresponding orthographic transcriptions in either Norwegian Bokmål or Norwegian Nynorsk, as well as various metadata about the speakers. The official proceedings from the meetings are also included in the corpus for reference.

Transcription was first done automatically; subsequently, the output of the automatic process was manually checked and corrected by trained linguists and philologists. Finally, all transcriptions were proofread to ensure consistency and accuracy. The audio files in the corpus contain the speech of entire days of plenary meetings from 2017 and 2018 (or, if a meeting lasts more than six hours, the first six hours of a day).

The corpus is available for download from the Norwegian Language Bank.

For the relevant publication, see Solberg and Ortiz (2022)

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Proceedings of Norwegian Parliamentary Debates

Size: 29 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, sentence segmentation, speaker metadata (name, party, time, type of utterance)
Licence: NLOD

Norwegian

The corpus contains Norwegian parliamentary debates from 2008 to 2015.

The corpus is available through the concordancer Corpuscle.

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Talk of Norway

Size: 63.8 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: NLOD

Norwegian

The corpus contains Norwegian parliamentary debates from 1998 to 2016.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARINO repository.

For the relevant publication, see Lapponi et al. (2018)

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Polish Parliamentary Corpus

Size: 300 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, named entities, etc.

Polish

The corpus contains Polish parliamentary debates from 1991 to 2017. It is annotated with Morfeusz SGJP (morphological analyser), Pantera (disambiguating tagger), Spejd (shallow parser), Nerf (named entity recognizer).

The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage and through the concordancer NKJP.

For the relevant publication, see Ogrodniczuk (2018)

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PTPARL Corpus

Size: 1 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CLARIN RES

Portuguese

The corpus contains Portuguese parliamentary debates from 1970 to 2008. It is annotated with LX-Tokenizer, LX-Tagger, MBT, MBLEM (lemmatisation).

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN PORTUGAL repository.

For the relevant publication, see Généreux et al. (2012)

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Slovenian parliamentary corpus ParlaMeter-sl 1.0

Size: 41 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged, lemmatised, named entities
Licence: CC-BY

Slovenian

The corpus contains minutes of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and currently covers the VIIth mandate from 1 August 2014 to 22 June 2018. The corpus contains speaker metadata (gender, age, education, party affiliation).

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository and through the concordancers KonText and noSketchEngine, as well as through a dedicated dedicated webpage.

For the relevant publication, see Ljubešić et al. (2018)

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Slovenian parliamentary corpus siParl 3.0

Size: 213 million words
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CC-BY

Slovenian

The corpus contains Slovenian parliamnetary debates from 1990 to 2022. It differs from the SlovParl 2.0 corpus (listed below) in that it contains only basic meta-data about the speakers, a typology of sessions and structural and editorian annotations.

The corpus is available for download from the CLARIN.SI repository and through the concordancers KonText and noSketchEngine.

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Slovenian parliamentary corpus SlovParl 2.0

Size: 3.2 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised
Licence: CC-BY

Slovenian

The SlovParl corpus contains minutes of the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for the legislative period 1990-1992, i.e. it covers the period before, during, and after Slovenia became an independent country in 1991. The corpus comprises 232 sessions, 58,813 speeches and 10.8 million words. The corpus contains extensive meta-data about the speakers, a typology of sessions etc. and structural and editorial annotations.

For the relevant publication, see Pančur and Šorn (2016)

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Riksdag’s Open Data

Size: 1.25 billion tokens
Annotation: tokenised, lemmatised
Licence: CC-BY

Swedish

The corpus contains Swedish parliamentary debates from 1971 to 2016. It is annotated with Sparv.

The corpus is available for download from Spr?kbanken (all entries with "Riksdag's Open Data" in the subtitle) and through the concordancer Korp.

For the relevant publication, see Borin et al. (2016)

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Europarl: European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2011

Size: 33.7 million tokens
Annotation: sentence/aligned
Licence: CC0

21 languages

This corpus contains parliamentary debates from the European Parliament from 1996 to 2011.

The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage.

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Other Parliamentary Corpora

Corpus Language Description Availability

Korpusbasierte Analyse österreichischer Parlamentsreden

Size: 1.2 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged

German (Austrian)

The corpus contains Austrian parliamentary debates from 2013 to 2015. It is annotated with the It's Stanford Tagger.

The corpus currently is not available.

For the relevant publication, see Sippl et al. (2016)

 

The ParlSpeech V2 data set

Size: 6.3 million parliamentary speeches
Annotation: date, speaker, party, agenda item metadata
Licence: CC0

German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Spanish, Swedish

The corpus contains complete parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years.

The corpus is available for download from the Harvard Dataverse repository.

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Corpus of Bulgarian Political and Journalistic Speech

Size: 10 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised

Bulgarian

The corpus contains Bulgarian parliamentary debates from 2006 to 2012.

The corpus is available through a dedicated concordancer.

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The Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC)

Size: 6.5 million words
Annotation: PoS-tagged, prosodic and paralinguistic features
Licence: Terms of Use

Chinese, English

The CEPIC consists of transcripts of speeches delivered by top political figures from Hong Kong, Beijing, Washington and London, as well as their translated/interpreted texts.

The main speech types of CEPIC include the reading of government reports such as policy addresses and budget speeches, Q&A at press conferences, parliamentary debates, as well as remarks delivered at bilateral meetings.

The corpus features a parallel display of up to six versions of the same speech segment, aligned at paragraph level.

The corpus is available for online querying through a dedicated concordancer.

For the relevant publication, see Pan (2019)

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CzechParl

Size: 81.9 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, MSD-tagged and lemmatised

Czech

The corpus contains Czech parliamentary debates from 1993 to 2010. It is annotated with It's ajka.

The corpus is available through the Sketch Engine.

For the relevant publication, see Jakubíček and Kovář (2010)

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DutchParl

Size: 800 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised

Dutch

The corpus contains Dutch parliamentary debates from 1814 to 2014. It is annotated with It's Frog. See also It's information on the schema used.

The corpus is available for download (the authors needs to be contacted) and is also accessible online through the Political Mashup environment.

For the relevant publication, see Marx and Schuth (2010)

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German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)

Annotation: tokenised, PoS-tagged, lemmatised, sentence segmented, NER-tagged, morphology, dependency parsed
Licence: AGPL-3.0 Licence

German

This corpus contains (mostly historical) German-language parliamentary proceedings from the 19th, 20th, and 21th centuries, including state and federal-level data. Additionally, the corpus contains conversions of scanned protocols and, in particular, of protocols in Fraktur converted via an OCR process based on Tesseract. All protocols were preprocessed by means of the NLP pipeline spaCy v3 and automatically annotated with metadata regarding their session date. The corpus is made available in the XML format of the UIMA project.

The corpus is available for download from GitHub.

For the relevant publication, see Abrami et al. (2022)

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HanDeSeT: Hansard Debates with Sentiment Tags

Size: 1251 motion-speech units taken from 129 separate debates
Annotation: sentiment tags
Licence: Open Parliament Licence V3.0 and Open Data Commons Open Database License (OdbL)

English

This corpus contains English parliamentary debates from 1997 to 2017.

The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage.

For the relevant publication, see Abercrombie and Batista-Navarro (2018)

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UKParl Dataset

Size: 354,400 tokens
Annotation: fine-grained topic annotation, additional semantic information (entity links)

English

This corpus contains British parliamentary debates of the House of Commons from 2013 to 2016.

The corpus is available for download from Google Drive.

For the relevant publication, see Nanni et al. (2018)

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polmineR corpus

Size: Only a small sample available

German A small sample is available for download from the GitHub webpage of the corpus. Download

Archives Parlementaires

 

French The Archives parlementaires is a chronologically-ordered edited collection of sources on the French Revolution. It was conceived in the mid 19th century as a project to produce a definitive record of parliamentary deliberations and also includes letters, reports, speeches, and other first-hand accounts from a great variety of published and archival sources. FRDA currently contains the AP volumes covering the years 1787-1794, which can be searched using ARTFL's PhiloLogic 4 open source software platform. The texts have been marked up using TEI so that speakers, places, dates, and terms in the published index can be easily found. Users can see both scanned images of the AP pages or just the texts. Concordancer

LinkedSAEIMA

Size: 12.5 million tokens
Annotation: tokenised, lemmatised

Latvian

The corpus contains Latvian parliamentary debates from 1993 to 2016.

The corpus is available through noSketchEngine.

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CLARIN-Funded Project: ParlaMint

CLARIN is currently funding the project ParlaMint: Towards Comparable Parliamentary Corpora. This project aims to provide multilingual standardised and linguistically processed resources for focused observations on trends, opinions, decisions with respect to lockdowns and restrictive measures in times of emergencies. For this goal two types of parliamentary corpora are envisaged: a contemporary one that is focused on COVID-19 issues (Nov. 2019 - July 2020) and a reference one for comparison (2015 - Oct. 2020). The data will be made available through concordances and monitoring tools. Read more

Additional Materials

CLARIN-PLUS Workshop 'Working with Parliamentary Records'. 27-29 March 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria. [html

Videolectures of the CLARIN-PLUS workshop. [html]

ParlaCLARIN@LREC2018. 7 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan. [html]

Videolectures of the ParlaCLARIN workshop. [html]

Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, Franciska de Jong (eds.), Proceedings of the ParlaCLARIN Workshop at LREC2018. [pdf]

Parthenos Video: Working with Parliamentary Data, interview with Federico Nanni. [html]

Parthenos Video: Working with Parliamentary Data, interview with Andreas Blätte. [html]

Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, Franciska de Jong (eds.), Proceedings of the ParlaCLARIN II Workshop at LREC2020. [pdf]

Darja Fišer, Kristina Pahor de Maiti, Tutorial: Voices of the Parliament. A Corpus Approach to Parliamentary Discourse Research. [html]

Publications on the parliamentary corpora

[Abrami et al. 2022] Giuseppe Abrami, Mevlüt Bagci, Leon Hammerla, and Alexander Mehler. 2022. German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor). arXiv preprint.

[Abercrombie and Batista-Navarro 2018] Gavin Abercrombie and Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro. 2018. A Sentiment-labelled Corpus of Hansard Parliamentary Debate Speeches. 

[Barbaresi 2018] Adrien Barbaresi. 2018. A corpus of German political speeches from the 21st century. Proceedings of LREC2018, 792–797.

[Borin et al. 2016] Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Martin Hammarstedt, Dan Rosén, Roland Schäfer, Anne Schumacher. 2016. Sparv: Språkbanken’s corpus annotation pipeline infrastructure. 

[Branco and Silva 2006] António Branco and João Silva. 2006. A Suite of Shallow Processing Tools for Portuguese: LX-Suite.

[Généreux et al. 2012] Michel Généreux, Iris Hendrickx, Amália Mendes. 2012. A Large Portuguese Corpus On-Line: Cleaning and Preprocessing.

[Lapponi et al. 2018] Emanuele Lapponi, Martin G. Søyland, Erik Velldal, and Stephan Oepen. 2018. The Talk of Norway: a richly annotated corpus of the Norwegian parliament, 1998–2016.

[Ljubešić et al. 2018] Nikola Ljubešić, Darja Fišer, Tomaž Erjavec, and Filip Dobranić. 2018. The Parlameter corpus of contemporary Slovene parliamentary proceedings.

[Jakubíček and Kovář 2010] Miloš Jakubíček, Vojtěch Kovář. 2010. CzechParl: Corpus of Stenographic Protocols from Czech Parliament.

[Marx and Schuth 2010] Maarten Marx and Anne Schuth. DutchParl: The Parliamentary Documents in Dutch. 

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