This paper introduces the GermaParl Corpus. We outline available data, the data preparation process for preparing corpora of parliamentary debates, and the tools we used to obtained hand-coded annotations that serve as training data for classifying debates. Beyond introducing a resource that is valuable for research, we share experiences and best practices for preparing corpora of plenary protocols.
@InProceedings{BLÄTTE18.1024, author = {Andreas Blätte and Andre Blessing}, title = "{The GermaParl Corpus of Parliamentary Protocols}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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