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title = "{G}e{P}a{D}e{U} - a Multi-layer Corpus of {G}erman Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations",
author = "Rehbein, Ines and
Schlenker, Julian and
Ostertag, Lars and
Ponzetto, Simone Paolo",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.141/",
doi = "10.63317/5d28ibqd2nzk",
pages = "1794--1810",
abstract = "This paper presents GePaDeU, a new manually annotated corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Unified layers of semantic and pragmatic information. The data includes parliamentary speeches from the German Bundestag, ranging over a time period from 2017{--}2021, with 267 speeches given by 197 members of parliament. The final release of our corpus unifies multiple annotation layers, including entity-level annotations, the annotation of speech events and their corresponding speakers, functional speech acts, clause-level aspect, and moral framing. We provide an overview of the various annotation layers and illustrate how the semantic and pragmatic annotations can be combined for corpus-linguistic studies and discourse analyses, and to answer research questions in the field of political science. The new resource will be made freely available for the research community."
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%T GePaDeU - a Multi-layer Corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations
%A Rehbein, Ines
%A Schlenker, Julian
%A Ostertag, Lars
%A Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F rehbein-etal-2026-gepadeu
%X This paper presents GePaDeU, a new manually annotated corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Unified layers of semantic and pragmatic information. The data includes parliamentary speeches from the German Bundestag, ranging over a time period from 2017–2021, with 267 speeches given by 197 members of parliament. The final release of our corpus unifies multiple annotation layers, including entity-level annotations, the annotation of speech events and their corresponding speakers, functional speech acts, clause-level aspect, and moral framing. We provide an overview of the various annotation layers and illustrate how the semantic and pragmatic annotations can be combined for corpus-linguistic studies and discourse analyses, and to answer research questions in the field of political science. The new resource will be made freely available for the research community.
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Markdown (Informal)
[GePaDeU - a Multi-layer Corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.141/) (Rehbein et al., LREC 2026)
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