---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: session_num
    dtype: int64
  - name: snapshot
    dtype: date32
  - name: session_name
    dtype: string
  - name: segment_num
    dtype: int64
  - name: speaker
    dtype: string
  - name: first_name
    dtype: string
  - name: last_name
    dtype: string
  - name: role
    dtype: string
  - name: transcript
    dtype: string
  - name: transcriber_notes
    sequence: string
  - name: id
    dtype: int64
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 516425482
    num_examples: 330183
  download_size: 287318835
  dataset_size: 516425482
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-classification
language:
- sk
tags:
- legal
- politic
- transcripts
- parliament
- slovak
pretty_name: Slovak Plenary Transcript Corpus (2001–2024)
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
license: cc-by-4.0
---

# Slovak Plenary Transcript Corpus (2001–2024)

This dataset contains segmentated full-text transcripts of the **Slovak National Council** (Národná rada Slovenskej republiky) plenary sessions, covering a **23-year period from 2001 to 2024**. The transcripts were collected by scraping official `.docx` documents from the [Spoločná česko-slovenská digitálna parlamentná knižnica](https://www.nrsr.sk/dl/) and subsequently parsing it.

## 📌 Dataset Summary

- Total of **66,412,216 words**
- Total of **220,721,383 tokens** (estimated using GPT-2 tokenizer)
- Structured into speech segments with speaker names, roles
- Includes contextual notes from transcribers (e.g., background noise, references)
- Suitable for speech modeling, political discourse analysis, and Slovak NLP

## 📁 Data Structure

Each dataset sample is a dictionary with the following fields:

```json
{
    "id": 2183662,
    "session_num": 31,
    "snapshot": "2018-05-16",
    "session_name": "Autorizovaná rozprava",
    "segment_num": 56,
    "speaker": "Bugár, Béla, podpredseda NR SR",
    "first_name": "Béla",
    "last_name": "Bugár",
    "role": "podpredseda NR SR",
    "transcript": "Vážené panie poslankyne, páni poslanci, pristúpime k hlasovaniam. Prosím pána poslanca Laurenčíka, aby uviedol hlasovanie o návrhu uznesenia. (Ruch v sále.) Vážené panie poslankyne, páni poslanci, prosím o väčší kľud. Budeme hlasovať o návrhu na vyslanie príslušníkov ozbrojených síl Slovenskej republiky v rámci Posilnenej predsunutej prítomnosti NATO do Lotyšskej republiky, Litovskej republiky, Estónskej republiky a Poľskej republiky (tlač 977).",
    "transcriber_notes": ["(Ruch v sále.)", "(tlač 977)"]
}
```

### 🔍 Field Descriptions

- **`id`**: Unique identifier of the row
- **`session_num`**: Number of the session in the current election term
- **`snapshot`**: Date on which the session took place
- **`session_name`**: Name under which the session was listed
- **`segment_num`**: Index of the speech segment within the session
- **`speaker`**: Raw string capturing the full speaker line
- **`first_name`**: Speaker’s parsed first name. This may sometimes be an initial (e.g., **B** in the case of **B. Bugár**).
- **`last_name`**: Speaker’s parsed last name
- **`role`**: Speaker’s official role at the time of the session
- **`transcript`**: Full text of the speaker’s utterance
- **`transcriber_notes`**: A list of in-transcript contextual notes (e.g., background noise, document references)

> 💡 **Note:**
> The fields `first_name`, `last_name`, and `role` were derived from the original `speaker` field using **regex** or **manual inspection**. Similarly, the `transcriber_notes` field was extracted using **regex matching**.

A session is uniquely identified by the combination of `session_num` and `session_name`. In rare cases, these fields may be null. Such edge cases typically did not follow typical regular patterns and could not be reliably identified.
Each `segment_num` represents a sequential speech segment within the session.

## 📝 Citation & Paper
For more details, please see our paper on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270). If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:
```bibtex
@misc{božík2025slopalspeech2800hourslovakspeech,
      title={SloPalSpeech: A 2,800-Hour Slovak Speech Corpus from Parliamentary Data}, 
      author={Erik Božík and Marek Šuppa},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.19270},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270}, 
}
```