German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)

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.

Using Java, this API allows to retrieve data from GerParCor, the largest German-language corpus of parliamentary records since 1797, from four different countries as well as on a national and regional level.

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

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.

@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}
}