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	The Danish Parliament Corpus 2009 - 2017, v2, w. subject annotation 
	
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April 2021

The corpus contains transcripts of parliamentary speeches of the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, session 20091 to 20161 (6/10 2009 – 7/9 2017) downloaded from the Danish Parliaments ftp server: ftp://oda.ft.dk.

The corpus has extensive metadata about the MPs (name, gender, age, role, title, party affiliation), timing of the speeches and subject annotation of each agenda item. The information on age and gender was added from external sources and the subject annotation was semiautomaticly added to each speech on the basis of manual annotation of the agenda titles.

The corpus is organized into UTF-8 formated, tab separated txt-files, one filer per meeting, one zip-file per session. In addition the excel file "Subjects.xlsx" acounts for the subject categories used in the corpus and a list of party names and abbreviations can be found in the file "Paties.txt".

Each line contains a speech with the following tab seperated metadata:
ID				the id consisting of date and start time of the speech
Date			date of the speech
Start time		stat time of the speech
End time		end time of the speech
Time			duration of the speech
Agenda item		the date and agenda number
Case no			the case number acording to the parliament
Case type		the case type acording to the parliament
Agenda title	the agenda title unde which the speech was held
Subject 1		one of 19 subject categories (or other)
Subject 2		if nessasary an addition subject category (or none)
Name			name of the speaker
Gender			gender of the speaker
Party			party of the speaker
Role			role of the speaker
Title			title of the speaker
Birth			birth of the speaker
Age				age of the speaker on the speaking time
Text			the speech

The Danish Parliament Corpus 2009 - 2017 follows the license for Open Data stating the following:
"The Danish Parliament grants a world-wide, free, non-exclusive and otherwise unrestricted right of use of the data in the Danish Parliament's open data catalogue. The data can be freely:
• copied, distributed and published,
• adapted and combined with other material,
• exploited commercially and non-commercially. "
Following the copyright act, the speeches can be distributed without the consent of the speaker but only in a way where the author/speaker of each text/speech is clearly stated. Furthermore, the Danish Parliament must be acknowledged as the source.

Papers that reference the corpus:
http://lrec-conf.org/workshops/lrec2018/W2/pdf/3_W2.pdf
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/15_paper.pdf