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. 2023;57(1):415-448.
doi: 10.1007/s10579-021-09574-0. Epub 2022 Feb 2.

The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

Tomaž Erjavec  1 , Maciej Ogrodniczuk  2 , Petya Osenova  3 , Nikola Ljubešić  4 , Kiril Simov  5 , Andrej Pančur  6 , Michał Rudolf  2 , Matyáš Kopp  7 , Starkaður Barkarson  8 , Steinþór Steingrímsson  8 , Çağrı Çöltekin  9 , Jesse de Does  10 , Katrien Depuydt  10 , Tommaso Agnoloni  11 , Giulia Venturi  12 , María Calzada Pérez  13 , Luciana D de Macedo  14 , Costanza Navarretta  15 , Giancarlo Luxardo  16 , Matthew Coole  17 , Paul Rayson  17 , Vaidas Morkevičius  18 , Tomas Krilavičius  19 , Roberts Darǵis  20 , Orsolya Ring  21 , Ruben van Heusden  22 , Maarten Marx  22 , Darja Fišer  23
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The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

Tomaž Erjavec et al. Lang Resour Eval. 2023.

Abstract

This paper presents the ParlaMint corpora containing transcriptions of the sessions of the 17 European national parliaments with half a billion words. The corpora are uniformly encoded, contain rich meta-data about 11 thousand speakers, and are linguistically annotated following the Universal Dependencies formalism and with named entities. Samples of the corpora and conversion scripts are available from the project's GitHub repository, and the complete corpora are openly available via the CLARIN.SI repository for download, as well as through the NoSketch Engine and KonText concordancers and the Parlameter interface for on-line exploration and analysis.

Keywords: Comparable corpora; Parliamentary proceedings; TEI.

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Encoding of the start of a corpus header
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Example of encoding of a legislature taxonomy category
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Example of parliament, political party and coalition/opposition encoding
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Example of a speaker encoding
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Example of encoding the start of a corpus component header
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Example of encoded text with speeches
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Example of a linguistically analysed text
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