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====== ParlCorp: Corpus of Czech Parliamentary Speeches ======


The ParlCorp  is a corpus of speeches delivered in the Lower Chamber of the Czech Parliament (Poslanecká Sněmovna). The core of the corpus is constituted by electronic transcripts of parliamentary debates, publicly available at [[https://www.psp.cz/|www.psp.cz]]. The aim of the corpus is to make parliamentary speeches accessible to linguistic research, but also to researchers in humanities and social sciences. 


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^ <fs medium>Name</fs> ^^ <fs medium>Parlcorp</fs> ^
^ Positions ^ Number of positions (tokens) |  38 591 592 |  
^ ::: ^ Number of word forms |  310 694 |  
^ ::: ^ Number of lemmas |  98 820 |
^ Structures ^ Number of speeches <sp> |  166 754 |
^ ::: ^ Number of speakers women |  239 |
^ ::: ^ Number of speakers men |  1004 |
^ ::: ^ Number of sentences <s> |  1 750 728 |
^ Further information ^ Reference corpus |  NO (verze 2) |  
^ ::: ^ Time period |  1993–2021 |
^ ::: ^ Publication year |  2021 |
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The texts also include brief remarks made in response to previous speakers or comments by the Chair of the session. The corpus thus covers a broad spectrum of parliamentary subgenres (parliamentary interpellations or Question Time, statements by the prime minister and government ministers, speeches during parliamentary deliberations, comments by the Chair of the session etc.). 

===== Available metadata =====

Two types of metadata are available for each speech: information about the text and information about the speaker. 

==== Text metadata ====

  * Electoral period – 8 electoral periods (1993–1996, ..., 2017–2021)
  * Number of the parliamentary session
  * Date of the session
  * Topic of the deliberation 
  * Unique ID of the text

==== Speaker metadata ====

  * name – for example Taťána Fischerová
  * sex – woman, man
  * role – for example member of parliament, Prime Minister, government minister etc.
  * party affiliation – political party or movement 
  * intervention order within the discussed topic

===== Citing Parlcorp =====

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Berrocal, Martina – Berrocal, Manuel: //ParlCorp: Corpus of Czech Parliamentary Speeches//. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Praha 2021. Available on-line: http://www.korpus.cz
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