The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

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

ParCzech 4.0

The ParCzech 4.0 corpus consists of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings in the 7th term (2013-2017), the 8th term (2017-2021) and the current 9th term (2021-Jul 2023). The protocols are provided in their original HTML format, Parla-CLARIN TEI format. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological, syntactic, and named-entity annotations using the procedures UDPipe 2 and NameTag 2. The audio files are aligned with the texts in the annotated TEI files. The audio files in this corpus are available in AudioPSP 24.01 corpus (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-5404). This corpus covers the same period as ParlaMint-CZ corpus v4.0 (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1860). ParCzech corpus follows and extends the ParlaMint schema. Both annotated and non-annotated versions include hypertext references to voting and parliamentary prints. In addition to ParlaMint's recommendation, the annotated version contains source audio alignment, PDT xtag, and more detailed CNEC2.0 named entity categorization

AudioPSP 24.01: Audio recordings of proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

This record contains audio recordings of proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The recordings have been provided by the official websites of the Chamber of Deputies, and the set contains them in their original format with no further processing. Recordings cover all available audio files from 2013-11-25 to 2023-07-26. Audio files are packed by year (2013-2023) and quarter (Q1-Q4) in tar archives audioPSP-YYYY-QN.tar. Furthermore, there are two TSV files: audioPSP-meta.quarterArchive.tsv contains metadata about archives, and audioPSP-meta.audioFile.tsv contains metadata about individual audio files

ParCzech PS7 2.0

The ParCzech PS7 2.0 corpus is the second version of ParCzech PS7 consisting of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings held in the 7th term between 2013-2017. The protocols are provided in their original HTML format, TEI format and TEI-derived format to make them searchable in the TEITOK corpus manager. Their audio recordings are available as well. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological, syntactic, and named-entity annotations using the procedures UDPipe 2 and NameTag 2

ParCzech PS7 1.0

The ParCzech PS7 1.0 corpus is the very first member of the corpus family of data coming from the Parliament of the Czech Republic. ParCzech PS7 1.0 consists of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings held in the 7th term between 2013-2017. The audio recordings are available as well. Transcripts are provided in the original HTML as harvested, and also converted into TEI-derived XML format for use in TEITOK corpus manager. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological and named-entity annotations using the procedures MorphoDita and NameTag

ParCzech PS7 2.0

The ParCzech PS7 2.0 corpus is the second version of ParCzech PS7 consisting of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings held in the 7th term between 2013-2017. The protocols are provided in their original HTML format, TEI format and TEI-derived format to make them searchable in the TEITOK corpus manager. Their audio recordings are available as well. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological, syntactic, and named-entity annotations using the procedures UDPipe 2 and NameTag 2

ParCzech PS7 1.0

The ParCzech PS7 1.0 corpus is the very first member of the corpus family of data coming from the Parliament of the Czech Republic. ParCzech PS7 1.0 consists of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings held in the 7th term between 2013-2017. The audio recordings are available as well. Transcripts are provided in the original HTML as harvested, and also converted into TEI-derived XML format for use in TEITOK corpus manager. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological and named-entity annotations using the procedures MorphoDita and NameTag

SiR 1.0

SiR 1.0 is a corpus of Czech articles published on iRozhlas, a news server of a Czech public radio (https://www.irozhlas.cz/). It is a collection of 1 718 articles (42 890 sentences, 614 995 words) with manually annotated attribution of citation phrases and sources. The sources are classified into several classes of named and unnamed sources. The corpus consists of three parts, depending on the quality of the annotations: (i) triple-annotated articles: 46 articles (933 sentences, 13 242 words) annotated independently by three annotators and subsequently curated by an arbiter, (ii) double-annotated articles: 543 articles (12 347 sentences, 180 622 words) annotated independently by two annotators and automatically unified, and (iii) single-annotated articles: 1 129 articles (29 610 sentences, 421 131 words) annotated each only by a single annotator. The data were annotated in the Brat tool (https://brat.nlplab.org/) and are distributed in the Brat native format, i.e. each article is represented by the original plain text and a stand-off annotation file. Please cite the following paper when using the corpus for your research: Hladká Barbora, Jiří Mírovský, Matyáš Kopp, Václav Moravec. Annotating Attribution in Czech News Server Articles. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 1817–1823, Marseille, France 20-25 June 2022

ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata

We present ParCzech 3.0, a speech corpus of the Czech parliamentary speeches from The Czech Chamber of Deputies which took place from 25th November 2013 to 1st April 2021. Different from previous speech corpora of Czech, we preserve not just orthography but also all the available metadata (speaker identities, gender, web pages links, affiliations committees, political groups, etc.) and complement this with automatic morphological and syntactic annotation, and named entities recognition. The corpus is encoded in the TEI format which allows for a straightforward and versatile exploitation. The rather rich metadata and annotation make the corpus relevant for a~wide audience of researchers ranging from engineers in the speech community to theoretical linguists studying rhetorical patterns at scale

ParCzech 3.0

The ParCzech 3.0 corpus is the third version of ParCzech consisting of stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies’ meetings held in the 7th term (2013-2017) and the current 8th term (2017-Mar 2021). The protocols are provided in their original HTML format, Parla-CLARIN TEI format, and the format suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition. The corpus is automatically enriched with the morphological, syntactic, and named-entity annotations using the procedures UDPipe 2 and NameTag 2. The audio files are aligned with the texts in the annotated TEI files