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. N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, M. U. Doğan, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis (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. 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