The Polish Parliamentary Corpus / Polski Korpus Parlamentarny

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 prepared in October 2011 and 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

CC-BY (Attribution)

Publications

So far please cite the Polish Sejm Corpus paper:

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).

Searching the corpus

Online search of the full corpus will be available soon. Search tool for a 200M sample of the Sejm data is available at http://sejm.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/. You can also use the Poliqarp image of this smaller corpus: http://sejm.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/static/PSC_poliqarp.tar.gz (826 MB).

Contact information

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