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ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2021

Abstract

We present ParCzech 3.0, a speech corpus of the Czech parliamentary speeches from The Czech Chamber of Deputies which took place from 25th November 2013 to 1st April 2021. Different from previous speech corpora of Czech, we preserve not just orthography but also all the available metadata (speaker identities, gender, web pages links, affiliations committees, political groups, etc.) and complement this with automatic morphological and syntactic annotation, and named entities recognition.

The corpus is encoded in the TEI format which allows for a straightforward and versatile exploitation. The rather rich metadata and annotation make the corpus relevant for a~wide audience of researchers ranging from engineers in the speech community to theoretical linguists studying rhetorical patterns at scale.