README.md

annotations_creators:

• no-annotation language:
• 'en:GB' language_creators:
• expert-generated license:
• cc-by-4.0 multilinguality:
• monolingual pretty_name: Hansard Speeches size_categories:
• 1M<n<10M source_datasets:
• original tags:
• speeches
• politics
• parliament
• british task_categories:
• text-classification task_ids:
• multi-class-classification

Dataset Card for hansard_speech

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data/
• Repository: https://github.com/evanodell/hansard-data3
• Paper: [Needs More Information]
• Leaderboard: [Needs More Information]
• Point of Contact: Evan Odell

Dataset Summary

A dataset containing every speech in the House of Commons from May 1979-July 2020. Quoted from the dataset homepage

Please contact me if you find any errors in the dataset. The integrity of the public Hansard record is questionable at times, and while I have improved it, the data is presented as is.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

• text-classification: This dataset can be used to clasify various texts (transcribed from speeches) as different time periods

Languages

en:GB

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
'id': 'uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-10a.23.4', 
'speech': 'Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, esquire, Edinburgh, Pentlands.', 
'display_as': 'Unknown', 
'party': nan, 
'constituency': nan, 
'mnis_id': nan, 
'date': '1979-05-10', 
'time': nan, 
'colnum': '23', 
'speech_class': 'Procedural', 
'major_heading': 'MEMBERS SWORN', 
'minor_heading': nan, 
'oral_heading': nan, 
'year': 1979, 
'hansard_membership_id': nan, 
'speakerid': nan, 
'person_id': nan, 
'speakername': 'Unknown', 
'url': nan
}

Data Fields

Variable|Description

id|The ID as assigned by mysociety speech|The text of the speech display_as| The standardised name of the MP. party |The party an MP is member of at time of speech constituency| Constituency represented by MP at time of mnis_id| The MPs Members Name Information Service number date |Date of speech time |Time of speech colnum |Column number in hansard record speech_class |Type of speech major_heading| Major debate heading minor_heading| Minor debate heading oral_heading| Oral debate heading year |Year of speech hansard_membership_id| ID used by mysociety speakerid |ID used by mysociety person_id |ID used by mysociety speakername| MP name as appeared in Hansard record for speech url | link to speech government_posts| Government posts held by MP (list-column) opposition_posts |Opposition posts held by MP (list-column) parliamentary_posts| Parliamentary posts held by MP (list-column)

Data Splits

Train: 2700000

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

This dataset contains all the speeches made in the House of Commons and can be used for a number of deep learning tasks like detecting how language and societal views have changed over the >40 years this dataset encompasses

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The dataset is created by getting the data from data.parliament.uk. There is no normalization

Who are the source language producers?

[N/A]

Annotations

Annotation process

None

Who are the annotators?

[N/A]

Personal and Sensitive Information

This is public information, so there should not be any personal and sensitive information

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

The purpose of this dataset is to understand how language use and society's views have changed over time.

Discussion of Biases

Because of the long time period this dataset spans, it might contain language and opinions that are unacceptable in modern society

Other Known Limitations

[Needs More Information]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

This dataset was built on top of parlparse by Evan Odell

Licensing Information

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Citation Information

@misc{odell, evan_2021, title={Hansard Speeches 1979-2021: Version 3.1.0}, DOI={10.5281/zenodo.4843485}, abstractNote={

Full details are available at https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data

Version 3.1.0 contains the following changes:

- Coverage up to the end of April 2021

}, note={This release is an update of previously released datasets. See full documentation for details.}, publisher={Zenodo}, author={Odell, Evan}, year={2021}, month={May} }