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CROCorp: Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in Croatia

Mochtak, Michal; Glaurdić, Josip; Lesschaeve, Christophe

The repository contains a cleaned and pre-processed corpus of parliamentary debates from the Croatian Parliament (Sabor). The corpus is accompanied by the metadata on elected representatives and their political parties. It covers the period of 2003-2020 (five complete terms) and counts over 500 thousand speeches.

If you use the dataset, please cite: Mochtak, Michal, Josip Glaurdić, and Christophe Lesschaeve (2022): CROCorp: Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in Croatia (v1.1.1), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6521372.

v1.1.1 (latest version)
- added the concept DOI to codebooks (DOI was generated only after the repository was published)

v1.1.0
- improved coding of dummy variable "moderator" (using less error-prone alghoritm for detecting the modertor role)
- fixed issue with agenda points which are conncatenated while preserving a unique web link
- recoded agenda points tags using better ML model (transformer architecture)

v1.0.0
- originally posted on GESIS repository (migrated to ZENODO due to limitations concerning the concept DOI)

Note: There is one corpus-specific peculiarity that comes from the nature of the data and reflects upon how the official database stores them. Some of the agenda points are discussed together and then split into separate trails, which makes the recorded transcripts overlap in parts they share. This approach is most apparent in the 9th term when the transcripts started to be recorded following this logic systematically. The official database stores the trails as unique links to preserve the within-case logic, which inevitably duplicates some of the speeches in the corpus. This leads to an artificial increase in the number of speeches that are not unique. Rather than removing duplicates that are shared across multiple agenda points right away and losing direct trace of agenda-focused discussions, they are kept in their original form. If needed, they can be easily filtered out based on date and reported agenda number.
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Croatia parliamentary debates corpus
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European Commission:
  • ELWar - Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe (714589)
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Version 1.1.1 10.5281/zenodo.6521643 May 9, 2022
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