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Releases, dataset updates, and project milestones.

1 October 2026

ParlLawSpeech data paper published in Scientific Data

The article describing the corpus, “The ParlLawSpeech parliamentary text data collection: >3 million parliamentary bills, laws, and speeches from 8 legislatures”, by Jan Schwalbach, Lukas Hetzer, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh and Miklós Sebők, is now out in Scientific Data 13, article 1327 (2026). It documents how the collection was built, how speeches, bills and laws are linked across the eight legislatures, and how the data were validated. Read the article →   Data at GESIS →

11 December 2024

Welcome to the ParlLawSpeech website

The PLS dataset is live — a collection of parliamentary speeches, bills, and laws produced under the auspices of the OPTED project. Building on ParlSpeech v1 and v2, PLS adds linked bills and laws for eight legislatures. Download from GESIS →