Processed Dutch Parliamentary Speech Corpora

Dutch parliamentary corpora, processed and hosted on Hugging Face by the author Iskaj. The dataset was last updated in January 2022. It contains text data from parliamentary proceedings in the Netherlands.

Use Cases

• Train a Dutch language model on parliamentary speech text to generate or classify political discourse.
• Analyze sentiment or topic trends within speech text fields over different parliamentary sessions.
• Perform named entity recognition on text to identify mentioned politicians, laws, or organizations.
• Study linguistic features and formality levels in government proceedings compared to other text corpora.

Strengths

• Dataset size is categorized between 1 million and 10 million instances, indicating a substantial text collection.
• Data is provided in Parquet format, which is efficient for columnar storage and large-scale processing.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and temporal coverage of the source material are unknown.
• The dataset was last updated over two years ago, which may indicate staleness if the source corpus is actively updated.

Provenance

Source

Likely derived from official Dutch parliamentary records, though the specific source is not stated.

Collection Method

Processed from raw parliamentary text data; exact processing steps are unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-01-27.

Geography

Netherlands (based on 'Dutch' in title and region tag).