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ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2021)

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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.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.clarin.eu/event/2020/clarin-cafe-join-our-parliamentary-flavoured-coffee-parlamint.

  2. 2.

    https://www.psp.cz/eknih/2002ps/audio/2006/01/17/index.htm.

  3. 3.

    https://psp.cz/eknih/2013ps/stenprot/zip/index.htm.

  4. 4.

    https://psp.cz/eknih/2013ps/stenprot/index.htm.

  5. 5.

    e.g. https://psp.cz/eknih/2013ps/audio/index.htm.

  6. 6.

    https://psp.cz/sqw/hp.sqw?k=1300.

  7. 7.

    Paragraphs are made by stenographers and can be revised by speaker.

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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 825460 (ELITR) and the grant 19-26934X (NEUREM3) of the Czech Science Foundation, and Project No. LM2018101 LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

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    Matyáš Kopp, Vladislav Stankov, Jan Oldřich Krůza, Pavel Straňák & Ondřej Bojar

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Kopp, M., Stankov, V., Krůza, J.O., Straňák, P., Bojar, O. (2021). ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata. In: Ekštein, K., Pártl, F., Konopík, M. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12848. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83527-9_25

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