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+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
 ---
-license: cc-by-4.0
----
+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} }