PTPARL-V: Portuguese Parliamentary Debates for Voting Behaviour Study

Abstract

We present a new dataset, PTPARL-V, that is a valuable resource for advancing discourse analysis of parliamentary debates in Portuguese and their alignment with voting behaviour. This is achieved by processing the open-access information available at the official Portuguese Parliament website and scraping the debate minutes concerning legislative initiatives, together with meta-data related to voting positions. Our dataset includes interventions from 547 different deputies of all major Portuguese parties, from 736 legislative initiatives spanning five legislatures from 2005 to 2021. We present a statistical analysis of the dataset compared to other publicly available Portuguese parliamentary debate corpora. Finally, we provide baseline performance analysis for voting behaviour classification. (c) 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.