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Compiling Czech Parliamentary Stenographic Protocols into a Corpus

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2020

Abstract

The Parliament of the Czech Republic consists of two chambers: the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) and the Senate (Upper House). In our work, we focus on agenda and documents that relate to the Chamber of Deputies.

Namely, we pay particular attention to stenographic protocols that record the Chamber of Deputies' meetings. Our overall goal is to continually compile the protocols into the TEI encoded corpus ParCzech and make the corpus accessible in a more user friendly way than the Parliament publishes the protocols.

In the very first stage of the compilation, the ParCzech corpus consists of the 2013+ protocols that we make accessible and searchable in the TEITOK web-based platform.