Greek Parliament Proceedings 1989-2019

<p>This dataset originated from the work implemented during the course of the Master thesis entitled &quot;<a href="http://www.pyxida.aueb.gr/index.php?op=view_object&amp;object_id=6387">Speech quality and sentiment analysis on the Hellenic Parliament proceedings</a>&quot; at the Athens University of Economics &amp; Business in 2018. It has been updated multiple times since then, in order for the best result to be achieved.</p> <p>It includes 1,194,407 speeches of Greek parliament members with a total volume of 2.15 GB, that where exported from 5,118 parliamentary sitting record files and extend chronologically from 1989 up to 2019.</p> <p>The dataset was created with the three following basic steps:</p> <ul> <li>Collection of the record files of the parliament proceedings that are&nbsp;published on the website of the Greek Parliament <a href="https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Praktika/Synedriaseis-Olomeleias">https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Praktika/Synedriaseis-Olomeleias</a></li> <li>Collection of the official published names of all the members of the Hellenic Parliament from the website of the Greek Parliament <a href="https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Vouleftes/Diatelesantes-Vouleftes-Apo-Ti-Metapolitefsi-Os-Simera/">https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Vouleftes/Diatelesantes-Vouleftes-Apo-Ti-Metapolitefsi-Os-Simera/</a></li> <li>Detecting speakers and their corresponding speeches from the records and matching the speaker names provided in the records with the official parliament member names.</li> </ul> <p>The dataset consists of a csv file in UTF-8 encoding and includes the following columns of data:</p> <p><strong>member_name:</strong> The official name of the parliament member that talked during a sitting.</p> <p><strong>sitting_date: </strong>The date that the sitting took place. There are cases were more than one sittings took place at the same date.</p> <p><strong>parliamentary_period:</strong> The name and/or number of the parliamentary period that the speech took place in. A parliamentary period includes multiple parliamentary sessions.</p> <p><strong>parliamentary_session: </strong>The name and/or number of the parliamentary session that the speech took place in. A parliamentary session includes multiple parliamentary sittings.</p> <p><strong>parliamentary_sitting: </strong>The name and/or number of the parliamentary sitting that the speech took place in.</p> <p><strong>political_party: </strong>The political party that the speaker belongs to.</p> <p><strong>speaker_info: </strong>Information about the speaker extracted from the text of the proceeding/sitting record that refers to the parliamentary role of the speaker such as Chairman of the Parliament, Finance Minister or similar.</p> <p><strong>speech: </strong>The speech that the member made during the sitting of the Greek Parliament.</p> <p>Any fields that do not include information, due to omissions in the record files, are filled with a NaN value, apart from the speech field, which in such cases remains an empty string.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p>