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speeches not given in a parliamentary session included in GermaParl #1

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mxi-hug opened this issue Mar 19, 2018 · 1 comment
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mxi-hug commented Mar 19, 2018

Apparently, there is a lack of structure in the original documents by the Bundestag concerning speeches in the printed protocols that were not given in session. Sometimes, these speeches are included in the appendix, sometimes included in the document body - but printed in italics in the pdf. Unfortunately, if the second variant is applied in the original document, the speech is included in the GermaParl-corpus (both TEI and R, v.1.1.0). So far, I couldn't figure out any logic when either variant is applied.

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(speeches not given but included in document and corpus)

16/227 s. 25217
http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btp/16/16227.pdf
(in R:)

buerokrat_kwic <- kwic("GERMAPARL", query = '"Bürokratie" "kostet" "Zeit"', cqp = T, left = 40, right = 40, meta = c("speaker", "date"))
buerokrat_kwic@table[3,1:6]

newer examples:
18/046 S. 4248
http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btp/18/18046.pdf
buerokrat_kwic <- kwic("GERMAPARL", query = '"Am" "vergangenen" "Montag" "erhielten"', cqp = T, left = 40, right = 40, meta = c("speaker", "date"))

18/066 S. 6162
http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btp/18/18066.pdf
kwic("GERMAPARL", query = '"die" "medizinischen" "Möglichkeiten" "ausgeschöpft" "sind"', cqp = T, left = 40, right = 40, meta = c("speaker", "date", "session"))

16/227 comes with another problem: Katrin Göring-Eckardt (as Bundestagsvizepräsidentin) is falsely marked as the speaker for a couple of speeches.

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mxi-hug commented Mar 22, 2018

Another quick note on the subject:

  • a rather unsurprising and reliable indicator to whether a protocol includes a problematic speech is the size of the protocol.
  • a good way to identify speeches not given in session could be selecting all <div type="agenda_item"> which don't contain any <stage type="interjection"> except for <sp role="presidency"> and deleting all <sp> except for presidency

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