Parlamint II

Project website

The CLARIN ERIC flagship project ParlaMint enables transnational and multidisciplinary analyses of parliamentary debates across 29 countries and autonomous regions in Europe.

Overcoming the obstacles of multilinguality and diversity of data formats, the project created interoperable and comparable corpora that facilitate transnational comparisons and enhance the understanding of parliamentary discourse and its societal impact locally and globally.

The corpora are available in open access and are a valuable source of information for researchers in a broad range of SSH disciplines, such as political and social sciences, media and communication studies, history and language studies, and are also relevant to policy makers.

The ParlaMint project is now being further developed in the OSCARS project ParlaCAP, which will provide a robust dataset for tracking political agenda-setting across European parliaments.

The ParlaMint II project

• Introduced enhancements:
  • Encoding infrastructure
  • Use of GitHub
  • Production of individual corpora
• Made qualitative additions:
  • Metadata localisation
  • New metadata added political orientation of political parties
  • Machine translation of the corpora to English
  • Production of pilot of speech corpora

ParlaMint II Work Plan (2022-2023)

• T1.1: Harmonization of encoding
• T1.2: Git management
• T1.3 Adding metadata to existing corpora

• T2.1: Adding new corpora
• T2.2: Extending existing corpora
• T2.3: Data distribution

• T3.1: Machine translation and semantic tagging
• T.3.2: Multimodality

• T4.1: Tutorial
• T4.2: Hackathon
• T4.3: Shared task
• T4.4: Showcases

• T5.1: Management
• T5.2: Dissemination
• T5.3: External monitoring