Dataset origin: https://www.clarin.si/repository/xmlui/handle/11356/1912

Description

ParlaMint 4.1 is a set of comparable corpora containing transcriptions of parliamentary debates of 29 European countries and autonomous regions, mostly starting in 2015 and extending to mid-2022. The individual corpora comprise between 9 and 126 million words and the complete set contains over 1.2 billion words.

The transcriptions are divided by days with information on the term, session and meeting, and contain speeches marked by the speaker and their role (e.g. chair, regular speaker). The speeches also contain marked-up transcriber comments, such as gaps in the transcription, interruptions, applause, etc. The corpora have extensive metadata, most importantly on speakers (name, gender, MP and minister status, party affiliation), on their political parties and parliamentary groups (name, coalition/opposition status, Wikipedia-sourced left-to-right political orientation, and CHES variables, https://www.chesdata.eu/). Note that some corpora have further metadata, e.g. the year of birth of the speakers, links to their Wikipedia articles, their membership in various committees, etc. The transcriptions are also marked with the subcorpora they belong to ("reference", until 2020-01-30, "covid", from 2020-01-31, and "war", from 2022-02-24). An overview of the statistics of the corpora is avaialable on GitHub in the folder Build/Metadata, in particular for the release 4.1 at https://github.com/clarin-eric/ParlaMint/tree/v4.1/Build/Metadata.

The corpora are encoded according to the ParlaMint encoding guidelines (https://clarin-eric.github.io/ParlaMint/) and schemas (included in the distribution).

This entry contains the ParlaMint TEI-encoded corpora and their derived plain text versions along with TSV metadata of the speeches. Also included is the 4.1 release of the sample data and scripts available at the GitHub repository of the ParlaMint project at https://github.com/clarin-eric/ParlaMint.

Note that there also exists the linguistically marked-up version of the 4.1 ParlaMint corpus (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1911) as well as a version machine translated to English (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1910). Both are linked with CLARIN.SI concordancers for on-line analysis.

As opposed to the previous version 4.0, this version fixes a number of bugs and restructures the ParlaMint GitHub repository. The DK corpus has now speeches also marked with topics. The PT corpus has been extended to 2024-03 and the UA corpus to 2023-11, where UA also has improved language marking (uk vs. ru) on segments.

Citation

 @misc{11356/1912,
 title = {Multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates {ParlaMint} 4.1},
 author = {Erjavec, Toma{\v z} and Kopp, Maty{\'a}{\v s} and Ogrodniczuk, Maciej and Osenova, Petya and Agirrezabal, Manex and Agnoloni, Tommaso and Aires, Jos{\'e} and Albini, Monica and Alkorta, Jon and Antiba-Cartazo, Iv{\'a}n and Arrieta, Ekain and Barcala, Mario and Bardanca, Daniel and Barkarson, Starkaður and Bartolini, Roberto and Battistoni, Roberto and Bel, Nuria and Bonet Ramos, Maria del Mar and Calzada P{\'e}rez, Mar{\'{\i}}a and Cardoso, Aida and {\c C}{\"o}ltekin, {\c C}a{\u g}r{\i} and Coole, Matthew and Darģis, Roberts and de Libano, Ruben and Depoorter, Griet and Diwersy, Sascha and Dod{\'e}, R{\'e}ka and Fernandez, Kike and Fern{\'a}ndez Rei, Elisa and Frontini, Francesca and Garcia, Marcos and Garc{\'{\i}}a D{\'{\i}}az, Noelia and Garc{\'{\i}}a Louzao, Pedro and Gavriilidou, Maria and Gkoumas, Dimitris and Grigorov, Ilko and Grigorova, Vladislava and Haltrup Hansen, Dorte and Iruskieta, Mikel and Jarlbrink, Johan and Jelencsik-M{\'a}tyus, Kinga and Jongejan, Bart and Kahusk, Neeme and Kirnbauer, Martin and Kryvenko, Anna and Ligeti-Nagy, No{\'e}mi and Ljube{\v s}i{\'c}, Nikola and Luxardo, Giancarlo and Magari{\~n}os, Carmen and Magnusson, M{\aa}ns and Marchetti, Carlo and Marx, Maarten and Meden, Katja and Mendes, Am{\'a}lia and Mochtak, Michal and M{\"o}lder, Martin and Montemagni, Simonetta and Navarretta, Costanza and Nito{\'n}, Bart{\l}omiej and Nor{\'e}n, Fredrik Mohammadi and Nwadukwe, Amanda and Ojster{\v s}ek, Mihael and Pan{\v c}ur, Andrej and Papavassiliou, Vassilis and Pereira, Rui and P{\'e}rez Lago, Mar{\'{\i}}a and Piperidis, Stelios and Pirker, Hannes and Pisani, Marilina and Pol, Henk van der and Prokopidis, Prokopis and Quochi, Valeria and Rayson, Paul and Regueira, Xos{\'e} Lu{\'{\i}}s and Rii, Andriana and Rudolf, Micha{\l} and Ruisi, Manuela and Rupnik, Peter and Schopper, Daniel and Simov, Kiril and Sinikallio, Laura and Skubic, Jure and Tungland, Lars Magne and Tuominen, Jouni and van Heusden, Ruben and Varga, Zs{\'o}fia and V{\'a}zquez Abu{\'{\i}}n, Marta and Venturi, Giulia and Vidal Migu{\'e}ns, Adri{\'a}n and Vider, Kadri and Vivel Couso, Ainhoa and Vladu, Adina Ioana and Wissik, Tanja and Yrj{\"a}n{\"a}inen, V{\"a}in{\"o} and Zevallos, Rodolfo and Fi{\v s}er, Darja},
 url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1912},
 note = {Slovenian language resource repository {CLARIN}.{SI}},
 copyright = {Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International ({CC} {BY} 4.0)},
 issn = {2820-4042},
 year = {2024} }