We present a new European Portuguese corpus of newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, integrated in the recent PressMint project, whose goal is to provide a set of comparable newspaper corpora for European languages in that time frame. We discuss the raw data that was previously available, as well as new data specifically compiled for the project, and the challenges involving OCR, text recognition, and different orthographical norms. We describe the pipeline setup for XML encoding and annotation, partially based on work developed for the ParlaMint corpora. The corpus is currently under development and will be made freely available at the end of the project, as part of the PressMint corpora.

As part of the project ParlaMint II, a new corpus of the sessions of the Portuguese Parliament from 2015 to 2022 has been compiled, encoded and annotated following the ParlaMint guidelines. We report on the contents of the corpus and on the specific nature of the political settings in Portugal during the time period covered. Two subcorpora were designed that would enable comparisons of the political speeches between pre and post covid-19 pandemic. We discuss the pipeline applied to download the original texts, ensure their preprocessing and encoding in XML, and the final step of annotation. This new resource covers a period of changes in the political system in Portugal and will be an important source of data for political and social studies. Finally, Finally, we have explored the political stance on immigration in the ParlaMint-PT corpus.