The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

Tomaž Erjavec; Maciej Ogrodniczuk; Petya Osenova; Nikola Ljubešić; Kiril Simov; Andrej Pančur; Michał Rudolf; Matyáš Kopp; Starkaður Barkarson; Steinþór Steingrímsson; Çağrı Çöltekin; Jesse de Does; Katrien Depuydt; Tommaso Agnoloni; Giulia Venturi; María Calzada Pérez; Luciana D de Macedo; Costanza Navarretta; Giancarlo Luxardo; Matthew Coole; Paul Rayson; Vaidas Morkevičius; Tomas Krilavičius; Roberts Darǵis; Orsolya Ring; Ruben van Heusden; Maarten Marx; Darja Fišer

doi:10.1007/s10579-021-09574-0

The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

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

Authors

Tomaž Erjavec¹, Maciej Ogrodniczuk², Petya Osenova³, Nikola Ljubešić⁴, Kiril Simov⁵, Andrej Pančur⁶, Michał Rudolf², Matyáš Kopp⁷, Starkaður Barkarson⁸, Steinþór Steingrímsson⁸, Çağrı Çöltekin⁹, Jesse de Does¹⁰, Katrien Depuydt¹⁰, Tommaso Agnoloni¹¹, Giulia Venturi¹², María Calzada Pérez¹³, Luciana D de Macedo¹⁴, Costanza Navarretta¹⁵, Giancarlo Luxardo¹⁶, Matthew Coole¹⁷, Paul Rayson¹⁷, Vaidas Morkevičius¹⁸, Tomas Krilavičius¹⁹, Roberts Darǵis²⁰, Orsolya Ring²¹, Ruben van Heusden²², Maarten Marx²², Darja Fišer²³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
² Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
³ Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria.
⁴ Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute and Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁵ Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
⁶ Institute for Contemporay History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁷ Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁸ The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík, Iceland.
⁹ University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
¹⁰ Dutch Language Institute, Hague, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems CNR-IGSG, Florence, Italy.
¹² Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR-ILC, Pis, Italy.
¹³ Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
¹⁴ Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁵ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁶ Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.
¹⁷ Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
¹⁸ Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
¹⁹ Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
²⁰ University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
²¹ Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
²² Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²³ Arts Faculty, University of Ljubljana, and Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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.