Parlamint 4.1: Parliamentary Debates from 29 European Countries

ParlaMint 4.1 contains transcriptions of parliamentary debates from 29 European countries and autonomous regions, mostly starting in 2015 and extending to mid-2022. The complete set contains over 1.2 billion words, with individual corpora comprising between 9 and 126 million words. It was created by FrancophonIA and last updated on HuggingFace in March 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze political discourse trends based on transcribed parliamentary debates.
• Train multilingual language models on formal political speech from diverse European contexts.
• Conduct comparative studies on legislative topics across different countries and regions.
• Develop tools for speech analysis based on session and term metadata.

Strengths

• Contains over 1.2 billion words, providing a large-scale text corpus.
• Covers 29 European countries and autonomous regions, offering broad geographic scope.
• Data spans from approximately 2015 to mid-2022, providing multi-year temporal coverage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2025-03-30 15:23:55; freshness should be verified.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source parliamentary sessions.

Provenance

Source

https://www.clarin.si/repository/xmlui/handle/11356/1912

Collection Method

Transcriptions of parliamentary debates.

Time Range

Mostly from 2015 to mid-2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-03-30 15:23:55.

Geography

29 European countries and autonomous regions.