# German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10422 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.10422/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 0 of its 18 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 21 Apr 2022.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [The Knesset Corpus: An Annotated Corpus of Hebrew Parliamentary Proceedings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18115/) (2024)
- [Speaker attribution in German parliamentary debates with QLoRA-adapted large language models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.09902/) (2023)
- [Analyzing German Parliamentary Speeches: A Machine Learning Approach for Topic and Sentiment Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.03181/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Parliamentary debates represent a large and partly unexploited treasure trove of publicly accessible texts. In the German-speaking area, there is a certain deficit of uniformly accessible and annotated corpora covering all German-speaking parliaments at the national and federal level. To address this gap, we introduce the German Parliament Corpus (GerParCor). GerParCor is a genre-specific corpus of (predominantly historical) German-language parliamentary protocols from three centuries and four countries, including state and federal level data. In addition, GerParCor contains conversions of scanned protocols and, in particular, of protocols in Fraktur converted via an OCR process based on Tesseract. All protocols were preprocessed by means of the NLP pipeline of spaCy3 and automatically annotated with metadata regarding their session date. GerParCor is made available in the XMI format of the UIMA project. In this way, GerParCor can be used as a large corpus of historical texts in the field of political communication for various tasks in NLP.