House of Commons Speeches from 1979 to 2020

Comprising every speech in the UK House of Commons from May 1979 to July 2020. It is tagged for tasks like masked language modeling and multi-class classification, and is monolingual in English.

Use Cases

• Train a masked language model on the full corpus of parliamentary speech text.
• Perform multi-class text classification on speeches using the provided task tags.
• Analyze language patterns and political discourse over the 41-year time range.

Strengths

• Covers a 41-year time range of parliamentary proceedings.
• Explicitly tagged for specific NLP tasks like masked language modeling and text classification.
• Source data is described as original and expert-generated.

Limitations

• The number of rows, columns, and sample data are unknown, limiting assessment of scale and structure.
• The dataset's last update was in 2022, so it does not include speeches after July 2020.
• Annotations were not created, limiting supervised learning applications.

Provenance

Source

Original source datasets from the UK House of Commons (Hansard).

Collection Method

Expert-generated speeches compiled from parliamentary records.

Time Range

May 1979 to July 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-07-27.

Geography

United Kingdom (British Parliament).