The Polish Parliamentary Corpus / Korpus Dyskursu Parlamentarnego

The Polish Parliamentary Corpus (PPC) is a large collection of linguistically analysed documents from the proceedings of Polish Parliament, Sejm and Senate. It is based on the Polish Sejm Corpus co-funded by project CESAR and is currently being updated by CLARIN-PL infrastructure.

Corpus format

Corpus files are made available in 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,
• lemmatization,
• disambiguated morphosyntactic description,
• syntactic words,
• syntactic groups,
• named entities.

Corpus data

• Sejm: Interpellations and questions terms 3-8, sittings terms 1-8, 37.2 GB

• Senate: Sittings terms 2-9, 5.2 GB

Licence

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

Publications

• Ogrodniczuk M. (2012). The Polish Sejm Corpus. In: D. Fišer, M. Eskevich, F. de Jong (eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pp. 2219–2223, European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

• Ogrodniczuk M. (2018). Polish Parliamentary Corpus. In: D. Fišer, M. Eskevich, F. de Jong (eds.) Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop “ParlaCLARIN: Creating and Using Parliamentary Corpora. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 979-10-95546-02-3. .

Other information

Please see also the slides from CLARIN-PLUS Workshop "Working with Parliamentary Records". Sofia, 27--29 March 2017.

Searching the corpus

• using Poliqarp search engine

• using Smyrna search engine

• using ngram viewer

Contact information

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