The Polish Round Table Corpus / Korpus Okrągłego Stołu

The Polish Round Table Corpus (PRTC) is a dataset documenting negotiations between the authorities in communist People's Republic of Poland and a section of the opposition (Solidarity movement, led by Lech Wałęsa) held in 1989 between 6 February and 5 April. The scanned transcripts have been acquired from the Library of Polish Sejm, OCR-ed, manually corrected and indexed in a concordancer.

Access to the corpus

The corpus is currently available for download and online search.

Licence

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

Publications

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Ryszard Tuora, and Beata Wójtowicz. Polish Round Table Corpus. In Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, and David Bordon, editors, Proceedings of the IV Workshop on Creating, Analysing, and Increasing Accessibility of Parliamentary Corpora (ParlaCLARIN) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 43–47, Torino, Italy, 2024. ELRA and ICCL.

Acknowledgments

Preparation of the transcripts was financed by the European Regional Development Fund as a part of the 2014-2020 Smart Growth Operational Programme, CLARIN - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, project no. POIR.04.02.00-00C002/19.