The Polish Parliamentary Corpus / Korpus Dyskursu Parlamentarnego

The Polish Parliamentary Corpus (PPC) is a large collection of linguistically analysed documents from the proceedings of the Polish Parliament, Sejm and Senate. It is based on the Polish Sejm Corpus co-funded by project CESAR and later extended using the support of CLARIN-PL, MARCELL and ParlaMint projects.

Corpus statistics

Please see the current statistics.

Corpus format

Corpus files are made available in XML TEI P5 format compatible with the annotation used by the National Corpus of Polish. The resource contains automatically created annotation of:

• utterance-level segmentation, tokenization and lemmatization produced with Morfeusz2

• disambiguated morphosyntactic description produced with Concraft2

• named entities produced with Liner2

• dependency structures produced with COMBO parser.

Download

Please use the links for individual terms of office. The XML version contains both TEI-encoded source data, metadata and linguistic annotation in CCL format; PDFs are original source files (often non-searchable).

You can also take a look at:

• a small sample with data from different periods (39 MB)

• PPC data on GitLab

Searching the corpus

• Korpus Dyskursu Parlamentarnego search engine (in Polish)

• Parlamentarium (in Polish)

Licence

The parliamentary data is public domain. The corpus annotations are available on CC-BY (attribution) licence.

Publications

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Michał Rudolf, Beata Wójtowicz, and Sonia Janicka. Error correction environment for the Polish Parliamentary Corpus. In Proceedings of The Workshop ParlaCLARIN III within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 35–38, Marseille, France, 2022. European Language Resources Association.

Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Bartłomiej Nitoń. New developments in the Polish Parliamentary Corpus. In Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, and Franciska de Jong, editors, Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop, pages 1–4, Marseille, France, 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Maciej Ogrodniczuk. Polish Parliamentary Corpus. In Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, and Franciska de Jong, editors, Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop ParlaCLARIN: Creating and Using Parliamentary Corpora, pages 15–19, Paris, France, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Maciej Ogrodniczuk. The Polish Sejm Corpus. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, pages 2219–2223, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

See also

• The slides from CLARIN-PLUS Workshop "Working with Parliamentary Records", Sofia, 27–29 March 2017.

• Webinar on PPC from CLARIN-PL workshop session (November 2020).

• ParlaMint project reusing a portion of data from the Polish Parliamentary Corpus in a multilingual setting.

• Polish Round Table Corpus, a parliamentary-like dataset of negotiations between the authorities in communist People's Republic of Poland and a section of the opposition in 1989.

• Polish Local Government Corpus, a corpus of Polish local government meeting transcripts from 2018 and 2025, covering various levels of local administration – municipalities (PL gminy), counties (PL powiaty), cities (PL miasta), and regional assemblies (PL sejmiki województw).

Contact

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences