| --- |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: session_num |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: snapshot |
| dtype: date32 |
| - name: session_name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: segment_num |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: speaker |
| dtype: string |
| - name: first_name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: last_name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: role |
| dtype: string |
| - name: transcript |
| dtype: string |
| - name: transcriber_notes |
| sequence: string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: int64 |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 516425482 |
| num_examples: 330183 |
| download_size: 287318835 |
| dataset_size: 516425482 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - text-classification |
| language: |
| - sk |
| tags: |
| - legal |
| - politic |
| - transcripts |
| - parliament |
| - slovak |
| pretty_name: Slovak Plenary Transcript Corpus (2001–2024) |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| --- |
| |
| # Slovak Plenary Transcript Corpus (2001–2024) |
|
|
| This dataset contains segmentated full-text transcripts of the **Slovak National Council** (Národná rada Slovenskej republiky) plenary sessions, covering a **23-year period from 2001 to 2024**. The transcripts were collected by scraping official `.docx` documents from the [Spoločná česko-slovenská digitálna parlamentná knižnica](https://www.nrsr.sk/dl/) and subsequently parsing it. |
|
|
| ## 📌 Dataset Summary |
|
|
| - Total of **66,412,216 words** |
| - Total of **220,721,383 tokens** (estimated using GPT-2 tokenizer) |
| - Structured into speech segments with speaker names, roles |
| - Includes contextual notes from transcribers (e.g., background noise, references) |
| - Suitable for speech modeling, political discourse analysis, and Slovak NLP |
|
|
| ## 📁 Data Structure |
|
|
| Each dataset sample is a dictionary with the following fields: |
|
|
| ```json |
| { |
| "id": 2183662, |
| "session_num": 31, |
| "snapshot": "2018-05-16", |
| "session_name": "Autorizovaná rozprava", |
| "segment_num": 56, |
| "speaker": "Bugár, Béla, podpredseda NR SR", |
| "first_name": "Béla", |
| "last_name": "Bugár", |
| "role": "podpredseda NR SR", |
| "transcript": "Vážené panie poslankyne, páni poslanci, pristúpime k hlasovaniam. Prosím pána poslanca Laurenčíka, aby uviedol hlasovanie o návrhu uznesenia. (Ruch v sále.) Vážené panie poslankyne, páni poslanci, prosím o väčší kľud. Budeme hlasovať o návrhu na vyslanie príslušníkov ozbrojených síl Slovenskej republiky v rámci Posilnenej predsunutej prítomnosti NATO do Lotyšskej republiky, Litovskej republiky, Estónskej republiky a Poľskej republiky (tlač 977).", |
| "transcriber_notes": ["(Ruch v sále.)", "(tlač 977)"] |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### 🔍 Field Descriptions |
|
|
| - **`id`**: Unique identifier of the row |
| - **`session_num`**: Number of the session in the current election term |
| - **`snapshot`**: Date on which the session took place |
| - **`session_name`**: Name under which the session was listed |
| - **`segment_num`**: Index of the speech segment within the session |
| - **`speaker`**: Raw string capturing the full speaker line |
| - **`first_name`**: Speaker’s parsed first name. This may sometimes be an initial (e.g., **B** in the case of **B. Bugár**). |
| - **`last_name`**: Speaker’s parsed last name |
| - **`role`**: Speaker’s official role at the time of the session |
| - **`transcript`**: Full text of the speaker’s utterance |
| - **`transcriber_notes`**: A list of in-transcript contextual notes (e.g., background noise, document references) |
|
|
| > 💡 **Note:** |
| > The fields `first_name`, `last_name`, and `role` were derived from the original `speaker` field using **regex** or **manual inspection**. Similarly, the `transcriber_notes` field was extracted using **regex matching**. |
| |
| A session is uniquely identified by the combination of `session_num` and `session_name`. In rare cases, these fields may be null. Such edge cases typically did not follow typical regular patterns and could not be reliably identified. |
| Each `segment_num` represents a sequential speech segment within the session. |
|
|
| ## 📝 Citation & Paper |
| For more details, please see our paper on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270). If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as: |
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{božík2025slopalspeech2800hourslovakspeech, |
| title={SloPalSpeech: A 2,800-Hour Slovak Speech Corpus from Parliamentary Data}, |
| author={Erik Božík and Marek Šuppa}, |
| year={2025}, |
| eprint={2509.19270}, |
| archivePrefix={arXiv}, |
| primaryClass={cs.CL}, |
| url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270}, |
| } |
| ``` |
