# The Knesset Corpus: An Annotated Corpus of Hebrew Parliamentary Proceedings

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18115 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18115/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 73 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 May 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

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- [Knesset-DictaBERT: A Hebrew Language Model for Parliamentary Proceedings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.20581/) (2024)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

We present the Knesset Corpus, a corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings containing over 30 million sentences (over 384 million tokens) from all the (plenary and committee) protocols held in the Israeli parliament between 1998 and 2022. Sentences are annotated with morpho-syntactic information and are associated with detailed meta-information reflecting demographic and political properties of the speakers, based on a large database of parliament members and factions that we compiled. We discuss the structure and composition of the corpus and the various processing steps we applied to it. To demonstrate the utility of this novel dataset we present two use cases. We show that the corpus can be used to examine historical developments in the style of political discussions by showing a reduction in lexical richness in the proceedings over time. We also investigate some differences between the styles of men and women speakers. These use cases exemplify the potential of the corpus to shed light on important trends in the Israeli society, supporting research in linguistics, political science, communication, law, etc.