Processed Parliamentary Text Corpus from the Netherlands

A processed corpus of parliamentary text from the Netherlands, uploaded to HuggingFace by author RuudVelo. The dataset contains text data categorized under parliamentary and political speech modalities. It was last updated on the platform in January 2022.

Use Cases

• Train language models on formal Dutch political speech using the parliamentary text content.
• Analyze speech patterns and topics within the Dutch parliament using the processed text fields.
• Perform named entity recognition on political figures and organizations mentioned in the corpus.
• Study the evolution of political language by analyzing temporal sequences in the parliamentary text.

Strengths

• Dataset size is categorized between 1 million and 10 million units, indicating a substantial text collection.
• Data is provided in the efficient Parquet file format, suitable for large-scale processing.

Limitations

• The exact number of rows, documents, or speeches is unknown, making scope assessment difficult.
• Data is from 2022 or earlier, potentially lacking recent parliamentary sessions.
• Lack of column descriptions limits understanding of specific text features and metadata available.

Provenance

Source

Parliamentary proceedings from the Netherlands.

Collection Method

Text processing and compilation by author RuudVelo; specific methods unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-01-27.

Geography

Netherlands (inferred from 'Nl' in title and 'Regionus' platform tag).