IGC-Parl: Icelandic Corpus of Parliamentary Proceedings

Steinþór Steingrímsson, Starkaður Barkarson, Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson


Abstract
We describe the acquisition, annotation and encoding of the corpus of the Althingi parliamentary proceedings. The first version of the corpus includes speeches from 1911-2019. It comprises 406 thousand speeches and over 219 million words. The corpus has been automatically part-of-speech tagged and lemmatised. It is annotated with extensive metadata about the speeches, speakers and political parties, including speech topic, whether the speaker is in the government coalition or opposition, age and gender of speaker at the time of delivery, references to sound and video recordings and more. The corpus is encoded in accordance with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines and conforms to the Parla-CLARIN schema. We plan to update the corpus annually and its major versions will be archived in the CLARIN.IS repository. It is available for download and search using the KORP concordance tool. Furthermore, information on word frequency are accessible in a custom made web application and an n-gram viewer.
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2020.parlaclarin-1.3
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Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Darja Fišer, Maria Eskevich, Franciska de Jong
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ParlaCLARIN
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European Language Resources Association
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11–17
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English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.parlaclarin-1.3
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Steinþór Steingrímsson, Starkaður Barkarson, and Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson. 2020. IGC-Parl: Icelandic Corpus of Parliamentary Proceedings. In Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop, pages 11–17, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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