The Weimar parliament corpus

Item Type:	Dataset
Title:	The Weimar parliament corpus
Date:	2026
Creator:	Rohr, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0002-4302-7591 ; Martin, John Levi ; Kamlah, Jan ORCID: 0000-0002-0417-7562 ; Diener, Julius ORCID: 0009-0008-6339-0436 ; Schweizer, David ORCID: 0009-0006-5527-9565
Divisions:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences) School of Social Sciences > Politikwissenschaft, Vergleichende Regierungslehre (Debus 2012-) School of Social Sciences > Economic and Organizational Sociology (Hillmann 2009-) Zentrale Einrichtungen > University Library
Publisher:	Zenodo

DDC Classification:	320 Political science
Abstract:	The files corpus.parquet and corpus.csv contain all speeches and interjections recorded in the official proceedings of the German Reichstag during the Weimar Republic (1920-1932). The files topics.parquet and topics.csv contain sentence-level topic classifications that can be linked to the corpus. The folder ParlaClarin contains the data (corpus and topic classifications combined) in the ParlaCLARIN TEI format. The folder also contains the Python script used to generate this format. The file Codebook.pdf contains brief descriptions of the variables in each file as well as the coding scheme and instructions used for the sentence-level topic classifications. The folder additional-files/PAGE-XML-files contains the PAGE XML files that form the basis for the corpus. The layout/segmentation model and the transcription model used to produce these files can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19222213 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19188500. The folder additional-files/scripts contains scripts used during the OCR step (PagePlus.py), for post-processing the transcriptions (cleanXML_v4.py), generating a figure with topic salience (plot_replication.R), and training and running the topic classifier (sentence_split.ipynb, train_classifier.ipynb, classify.ipynb). (English)
External Identifier for Data:	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19180341

URL:	https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/1210/
Access (Controlled):	Only Metadata
License (Controlled):	Creative Commons: CC-BY-NC-SA | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0

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Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2026 14:03
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2026 14:03