| 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-description) | |
| - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) | |
| - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards) | |
| - [Languages](#languages) | |
| - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) | |
| - [Data Instances](#data-instances) | |
| - [Data Fields](#data-instances) | |
| - [Data Splits](#data-instances) | |
| - [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) | |
| - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) | |
| - [Source Data](#source-data) | |
| - [Annotations](#annotations) | |
| - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) | |
| - [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) | |
| - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) | |
| - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) | |
| - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) | |
| - [Additional Information](#additional-information) | |
| - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) | |
| - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) | |
| - [Citation 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](https://github.com/evanodell) | |
| ### 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](http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/memberquery.aspx). 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](https://github.com/mysociety/parlparse) by [Evan Odell](https://github.com/evanodell) | |
| ### 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={<p>Full details are available at <a href="https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data">https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data</a></p> <p><strong>Version 3.1.0 contains the following changes:</strong></p> <p>- Coverage up to the end of April 2021</p>}, | |
| note={This release is an update of previously released datasets. See full documentation for details.}, | |
| publisher={Zenodo}, | |
| author={Odell, Evan}, | |
| year={2021}, | |
| month={May} } |