German Political Speeches - Corpus and Visualization

Adrien Barbaresi (1)

1 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations

The resource presented here consists of speeches by the last German Presidents and Chancellors as well as a few ministers, all gathered from official sources. It provides raw data, metadata and tokenized text with part-of-speech tagging and lemmas in XML TEI format for researchers that are able to use it and a simple visualization interface for those who want to get a glimpse of what is in the corpus before downloading it or thinking about using more complete tools. The visualization output is in valid CSS/XHTML format, it takes advantage of recent standards. The purpose is to give a sort of Zeitgeist, an insight on the topics developed by a government official and on the evolution in the use of general concepts. This resource is freely available: http://purl.org/corpus/german-speeches

Mots clés: political speeches; Merkel; Schröder; German; visualization; Zeitgeist; XML; Wulff; corpus

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Science politique

Adrien Barbaresi. German Political Speeches - Corpus and Visualization: 2nd release. DGfS-CL poster session, Mar 2012, Frankfurt, Germany. ⟨halshs-00677928⟩