# BasqueParl: A Bilingual Corpus of Basque Parliamentary Transcriptions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01506 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01506/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 May 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.02116/) (2019)
- [Give your Text Representation Models some Love: the Case for Basque](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.00033/) (2020)
- [Overview of CAPITEL Shared Tasks at IberLEF 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Universal Dependencies Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.05932/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Leveraging a New Spanish Corpus for Multilingual and Crosslingual Metaphor Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10358/) (2022)
- [IsraParlTweet: The Israeli Parliamentary and Twitter Resource](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.20269/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Parliamentary transcripts provide a valuable resource to understand the reality and know about the most important facts that occur over time in our societies. Furthermore, the political debates captured in these transcripts facilitate research on political discourse from a computational social science perspective. In this paper we release the first version of a newly compiled corpus from Basque parliamentary transcripts. The corpus is characterized by heavy Basque-Spanish code-switching, and represents an interesting resource to study political discourse in contrasting languages such as Basque and Spanish. We enrich the corpus with metadata related to relevant attributes of the speakers and speeches (language, gender, party...) and process the text to obtain named entities and lemmas. The obtained metadata is then used to perform a detailed corpus analysis which provides interesting insights about the language use of the Basque political representatives across time, parties and gender.