GerParCor

German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)

Abstract

In 2022, the largest German-speaking corpus of parliamentary protocols from three different centuries, on a national and federal level from the countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, was collected and published - GerParCor. Through GerParCor, it became possible to provide for the first time various parliamentary protocols which were not available digitally and, moreover, could not be retrieved and processed in a uniform manner. Furthermore, GerParCor was additionally preprocessed using NLP methods and made available in XMI format. In this paper, GerParCor is significantly updated by including all new parliamentary protocols in the corpus, as well as adding and preprocessing further parliamentary protocols previously not covered, so that a period up to 1797 is now covered. Besides the integration of a new, state-of-the-art and appropriate NLP preprocessing for the handling of large text corpora, this update also provides an overview of the further reuse of GerParCor by presenting various provisioning capabilities such as API’s, among others.

GerParCor is available via https://gerparcor.texttechnologylab.org

GerParCor 2022

GerParCor 2022 is available via http://lrec2022.gerparcor.texttechnologylab.org

#	Parliament	Sessions	From	Until	Status / Download
1	Reichstag (NG + Zoll)	1990	02/25/1867	05/24/1895	Download
2	Reichstag (Empire)	2183	12/03/1895	10/26/1918	Download
3	Weimar Republic	1328	02/06/1919	12/09/1932	Download
4	ThirdReich	20	03/21/1933	04/24/1942	Download
5	Bundesrat	1008	09/07/1949	10/08/2021	Download
6	Bundestag	4158	09/07/1949	09/07/2021	Download
7	Baden-Würtemberg	412	06/05/1984	09/29/2021	Download
8	Bayern	2221	12/16/1946	10/14/2021	Download
9	Berlin	582	04/02/1989	09/16/2021	Download
10	Brandenburg	442	10/26/1990	08/27/2021	Download
11	Bremen	1102	07/04/1995	09/16/2021	Download
12	Hamburg	586	10/08/1997	11/03/2021	Download
13	Hessen	1297	02/04/1947	09/29/2021	Download
14	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	659	10/26/1990	06/11/2021	Download
15	Niedersachsen	1109	06/22/1982	09/15/2021	Download
16	Nordrhein-Westfalen	2041	05/21/1947	10/08/2021	Download
17	Rheinland-Pfalz	1562	07/24/1947	09/22.2021	Download
18	Saarland	876	07/23/1959	09/15/2021	Download
19	Sachsen	690	10/27/1990	11/18/2021	Download
20	Sachsen-Anhalt	607	10/28/1990	09/17/2021	Download
21	Schleswig-Holstein	1776	02/26/1946	02/11/2021	Download
22	Thüringen	761	10/25/1990	11/19/2021	Download
23	Liechtenstein	504	03/13/1997	11/06/2021	Download
24	Nationalrat (AT)	4267	10/21/1918	05/17/2021	Download
25	Nationlarat (CH)	368	12/06/1999	12/09/2021	Download

Cite

If you want to use the project or the corpus, please quote this as follows:

• G. Abrami, M. Bagci, L. Hammerla, and A. Mehler, “German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor),” in Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 2022, pp. 1900-1906. [Link] [PDF]

• G. Abrami, M. Bagci and A. Mehler, “German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor) Reloaded,” in Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, 2024, pp. 7707-7716. [Link] [PDF]

BibTeX

@InProceedings{Abrami:Bagci:Hammerla:Mehler:2022,
  author         = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bagci, Mevl\"{u}t and Hammerla, Leon and Mehler, Alexander},
  title          = {German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month          = {June},
  year           = {2022},
  address        = {Marseille, France},
  publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
  pages          = {1900--1906},
  url            = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.202}
}

@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2024,
    address   = {Torino, Italy},
    author    = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Mehler, Alexander},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
    editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen},
    month     = {may},
    pages     = {7707--7716},
    publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
    title     = {{G}erman Parliamentary Corpus ({G}er{P}ar{C}or) Reloaded},
    url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.681},
    year      = {2024}
}