TY - JOUR
T1 - PTPARL-D: an annotated corpus of forty-four years of Portuguese parliamentary debates
AU - Almeida, Paulo
AU - Marques-Pita, Manuel
AU - Gonçalves-Sá, Joana
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - In a representative democracy, some decide in the name of the rest. These elected officials are commonly gathered in public assemblies, such as parliaments, where they discuss policies, legislate, and vote on fundamental initiatives. A core aspect of such democratic processes are the plenary debates, where important public discussions take place. Many parliaments around the world are increasingly keeping the transcripts of such debates and other parliamentary data in digital formats that are accessible to the public. This is meant to increase transparency and accountability, but these records are often only provided as raw text or even as images, with little, if any, annotation and in inconsistent formats, making them difficult to analyse. Here, we present PTARL-D, an annotated corpus of debates in the Portuguese Parliament, covering the years 1976 to 2019 and representing the entire period of Portuguese democracy. © Edinburgh University Press
AB - In a representative democracy, some decide in the name of the rest. These elected officials are commonly gathered in public assemblies, such as parliaments, where they discuss policies, legislate, and vote on fundamental initiatives. A core aspect of such democratic processes are the plenary debates, where important public discussions take place. Many parliaments around the world are increasingly keeping the transcripts of such debates and other parliamentary data in digital formats that are accessible to the public. This is meant to increase transparency and accountability, but these records are often only provided as raw text or even as images, with little, if any, annotation and in inconsistent formats, making them difficult to analyse. Here, we present PTARL-D, an annotated corpus of debates in the Portuguese Parliament, covering the years 1976 to 2019 and representing the entire period of Portuguese democracy. © Edinburgh University Press
KW - Annotated corpus
KW - Individual speeches
KW - Multiparty systems
KW - Plenary debates
KW - Political discourse
KW - Portuguese parliament
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120949609&origin=inward&txGid=83e689446fede649de469b3dced333f0
U2 - 10.3366/cor.2021.0226
DO - 10.3366/cor.2021.0226
M3 - Article
SN - 1749-5032
VL - 16
SP - 337
EP - 348
JO - Corpora
JF - Corpora
IS - 3
ER -