Corpora of Written Language
Protocols of Plenary Sessions
This collection of corpora has been published since 2013 and contains plenary protocols of all German parliaments, i. e. of the German Bundestag, the Federal Council of Germany and of all German state parliaments from (at least) 2000 until mid 2012. Germany: The corpus “protocols of plenary sessions” of German parliaments was developed from 2011-2012 in the project PolMine - Corpus-based Political Research (Prof. Dr. Andreas Blätte and Silvia Berenz M.A.) at the Juniorprofessur für Politikwissenschaft der Stiftung Zukunft NRW of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Within the framework of PolMine, the protocols were acquired as PDF-documents and have been converted with the help of a conversion programme into the PolMine-XML-format. In the IDS-project Corpus Development, this corpus has been converted into the IDS-text model, where each parliament equals one DeReKo-corpus, each parliamentary term equals one document and each protocol equals one text. Due to the fully automatic extraction and conversion from PDF, the quality of the texts regarding word recognition and structure recognition varies, although most of the texts are of very good quality. The PolMine documentation on quality control provides information about the average quality value for each parliament and parliamentary term.| DeReKo corpus sigle | parliament | since parlia- mentary term | since date | until date | number of texts (protocols) | number of current word forms | |||
| source:Project PolMine to Data and Analyses; as of 2013-02-02 | |||||||||
| pbt | German Bundestag | 14 | 26.10.1998 | about mid 2012 | 872 | 51 139 236 | |||
| pbr | Federal Council of Germany | -- | 04.02.2000 | about mid 2012 | 155 | 3 352 274 | |||
| pbw | state parliament of Baden-Württemberg | 12 | 11.06.1996 | about mid 2012 | 378 | 18 730 308 | |||
| pby | Bavarian state parliament | 14 | 28.09.1998 | about mid 2012 | 359 | 15 452 256 | |||
| pbe | Berlin House of Representatives | 14 | 18.11.1999 | about mid 2012 | 228 | 12 433 700 | |||
| pbb | state parliament of Brandenburg | 3 | 29.09.1999 | about mid 2012 | 254 | 11 826 395 | |||
| phb | Bremische Bürgerschaft | 15 | 07.07.1999 | about mid 2012 | 264 | 11 549 459 | |||
| phh | Hamburgische Bürgerschaft | 16 | 08.10.1997 | about mid 2012 | 363 | 13 532 044 | |||
| phe | state parliament of Hesse | 15 | 07.04.1999 | about mid 2012 | 413 | 19 491 715 | |||
| pmv | state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 3 | 26.10.1998 | about mid 2012 | 317 | 16 345 331 | |||
| pni | state parliament of Lower Saxony | 14 | 09.04.1998 | about mid 2012 | 370 | 21 798 168 | |||
| pnw | state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia | 12 | 01.06.1995 | about mid 2012 | 486 | 25 443 901 | |||
| prp | state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate | 13 | 20.05.1996 | about mid 2012 | 383 | 14 260 320 | |||
| psl | state parliament of the Saarland | 12 | 29.09.1999 | about mid 2012 | 172 | 7 878 814 | |||
| psn | state parliament of Saxony | 3 | 13.10.1999 | about mid 2012 | 318 | 17 920 528 | |||
| pst | state parliament of Saxony--Anhalt | 3 | 25.05.1998 | about mid 2012 | 267 | 10 683 645 | |||
| psh | state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein | 14 | 23.04.1996 | about mid 2012 | 458 | 19 329 586 | |||
| pth | state parliament of Thuringia | 3 | 01.10.1999 | about mid 2012 | 322 | 18 190 222 | |||
| parliamentary term: 65 | amount of texts: 6422 | amount of word forms: 309 357 902 | |||||||
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| DeReKo corpus sigle | Parliament | since parliamentary term | since date | until date | number of texts (protocols) | number of current word forms |
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| pno | state parliament of Lower Austria | 14 | 7.6.1993 | 2013 (inclusive) | 220 not contained: sessions 2,3,5-9,13-15 of the 14th parliamentary term; special sessions | 12 786 782 |
| parliamentary term: 5 | amount of texts: 220 | amount of word forms 12 786 782 | ||||