The GermaParl Corpus of Parliamentary Protocols
Andreas Blätte, André Blessing · 2018
This paper introduces the GermaParl Corpus.We outline available data, the data preparation process for preparing corpora of parliamentary debates and the tools we used to obtain hand-coded annotations that serve as training data for classifying debates.Beyond introducing a resource that is valuable for research, we share experiences and best practices for preparing corpora of plenary protocols.