GePaDeU - a Multi-layer Corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations

Ines Rehbein, Julian Schlenker, Lars Ostertag, Simone Paolo Ponzetto


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.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.141
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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1794–1810
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-141
DOI:
10.63317/5d28ibqd2nzk
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Ines Rehbein, Julian Schlenker, Lars Ostertag, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto. 2026. GePaDeU - a Multi-layer Corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1794–1810, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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GePaDeU - a Multi-layer Corpus of German Parliamentary Debates with Rich Semantic and Pragmatic Annotations (Rehbein et al., LREC 2026)
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