The Polish Sejm Corpus / Polski Korpus Sejmowy

The Polish Sejm Corpus (PSC) is a large (200M-segment) collection of documents (stenographic transcripts, interpellations and questions) of Polish Sejm sittings from 1-7 terms of office.

The first edition of the PSC was prepared in October 2011 and was co-funded by CESAR European project. The current edition is being co-funded by CLARIN-PL.

Corpus data

The corpus contain transcripts of Sejm sessions saved in TEI P5 format. The resource contains automatically created annotation of:

• utterance-level segmentation,
• tokenization,
• lemmatization,
• disambiguated morphosyntactic description,
• syntactic words,
• syntactic groups,
• named entities.

Whole corpus

• Interpellations and questions terms 3-6, sittings terms 1-6, 25 GB

Divided by term and document type

• Interpellations and questions Term 3, (1997–2001), 1.7 GB

• Interpellations and questions Term 4, (2001–05), 2.4 GB

• Interpellations and questions Term 5, (2005–07), 2.0 GB

• Interpellations and questions Term 6, (2007–11), 4.8 GB

• Sittings Term 1, (1991–93), 0.9 GB

• Sittings Term 2, (1993–97), 2.6 GB

• Sittings Term 3, (1997–2001), 2.8 GB

• Sittings Term 4, (2001–05), 3.4 GB

• Sittings Term 5, (2005–07), 1.4 GB

• Sittings Term 6, (2007–11), 3.1 GB

• Sittings Term 7, (2011–15), 2.7 GB

• Sittings Term 8, (2015–), 704 MB

Publications

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 corpus is available at http://sejm.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/. You can also use the Poliqarp image of the corpus: http://sejm.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/static/PSC_poliqarp.tar.gz (826 MB).