With recent enrichments of the ParlaMint corpora, new opportunities have emerged for examining a range of political and discursive phenomena. This paper utilises the Slovenian ParlaMint corpus to investigate the construction of political identities through the possessive pronouns ’our’ (slv. naš) and ’your’ (slv. vaš) in Slovenian parliamentary discourse. The analysis uses a corpus-assisted approach, combining text-type, collocation, and keyword analyses of the lemmas naš and vaš. The data are drawn from three subcorpora compiled from speeches of Members of Parliament: (1) Our, containing speeches in which naš occurs; (2) Your, containing speeches in which vaš occurs; and (3) Our&Your, containing speeches in which both lemmas co-occur within the same sentence. The results indicate a clear alignment with established patterns of positive self-representation and negative other-representation. Occurrences of ’our’ are predominantly associated with positively evaluative discourse, with Norms & Values emerging as a central category. In contrast, occurrences of ’your’ are more typically linked to negative sentiment and keywords, with Activities/Discourse identified as the most prominent category. These findings suggest that these possessive pronouns function as markers of ideological positioning and discursive polarisation in Slovenian parliamentary debates.

We introduce a dataset on political orientation and power position identification. The dataset is derived from ParlaMint, a set of comparable corpora of transcribed parliamentary speeches from 29 national and regional parliaments. We introduce the dataset, provide the reasoning behind some of the choices during its creation, present statistics on the dataset, and, using a simple classifier, some baseline results on predicting political orientation on the left-to-right axis, and on power position identification, i.e., distinguishing between the speeches delivered by governing coalition party members from those of opposition party members.

In ParlaMint I, a CLARIN-ERIC supported project in pandemic times, a set of comparable and uniformly annotated multilingual corpora for 17 national parliaments were developed and released in 2021. For 2022 and 2023, the project has been extended to ParlaMint II, again with the CLARIN ERIC financial support, in order to enhance the existing corpora with new data and metadata; upgrade the XML schema; add corpora for 10 new parliaments; provide more application scenarios and carry out additional experiments. The paper reports on these planned steps, including some that have already been taken, and outlines future plans.