BasqueParl: A Bilingual Corpus of Basque Parliamentary Transcriptions
Nayla Escribano, Jon Ander Gonzalez, Julen Orbegozo-Terradillos, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Simón Peña-Fernández, Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, Rodrigo Agerri
Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.361
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3382–3390
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.361
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nayla Escribano, Jon Ander Gonzalez, Julen Orbegozo-Terradillos, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Simón Peña-Fernández, Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, and Rodrigo Agerri. 2022. BasqueParl: A Bilingual Corpus of Basque Parliamentary Transcriptions. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3382–3390, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- BasqueParl: A Bilingual Corpus of Basque Parliamentary Transcriptions (Escribano et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2022.lrec-1.361.pdf
- Code
- ixa-ehu/basqueparl
- Data
- basqueparl