We demonstrate the multilingual search engine and Ngram viewer that was built on top of the Parlamint dataset using the recently available translations. The user interface and SERP are carefully designed for querying parliamentary proceedings and for the intended use by citizens, journalists and political scholars. Demo at https://debateabase.wooverheid.nl. Keywords: Multilingual Search, Parliamentary Proceedings, Ngram Viewer, Machine Translation

This position paper makes an argument for creating a corpus similar to that of ParlaMint, not consisting of parliamentary proceedings, but of documents released under Freedom of Information Acts. Over 100 countries have such an act, and almost all European countries. Bringing these now dispersed document collections together in a uniform format into one portal will result in a valuable language resource. Besides that, our Dutch experience shows that such new larger exposure of these documents leads to efforts to improve their quality at the sources. Keywords: Freedom of Information Act, ParlaMint, Government Data