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A Greek Parliament Proceedings Dataset for Computational Linguistics and Political Analysis

arXiv 2210.12883 ↗First posted 23 Oct 2022cs.CL cs.AIcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

Large, diachronic datasets of political discourse are hard to come across, especially for resource-lean languages such as Greek. In this paper, we introduce a curated dataset of the Greek Parliament Proceedings that extends chronologically from 1989 up to 2020. It consists of more than 1 million speeches with extensive metadata, extracted from 5,355 parliamentary record files. We explain how it was constructed and the challenges that we had to overcome. The dataset can be used for both computational linguistics and political analysis-ideally, combining the two. We present such an application, showing (i) how the dataset can be used to study the change of word usage through time, (ii) between significant historical events and political parties, (iii) by evaluating and employing algorithms for detecting semantic shifts.

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  1. 2024A Systematic Survey of Natural Language Processing for the Greek Languagecited by 1
  2. 2025Analyzing German Parliamentary Speeches: A Machine Learning Approach for Topic and Sentiment Classificationcited by 1
  3. 2025Forging GEMs: Advancing Greek NLP through Quality-Based Corpus Curationcited by 1
  4. 2026Svarna: An Open Corpus Workbench for Modern Greekcited by 0