Open Political Corpora: Structuring, Searching, and Analyzing Political Text Collections with PoliCorp

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Main Authors: Smirnova, Nina, Shahid, Muhammad Ahsan, Mayr, Philipp
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Published: 2025
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author Smirnova, Nina
Shahid, Muhammad Ahsan
Mayr, Philipp
author_facet Smirnova, Nina
Shahid, Muhammad Ahsan
Mayr, Philipp
contents In this work, we present PoliCorp (https://demo-pollux.gesis.org/), a web portal designed to facilitate the search and analysis of political text corpora. PoliCorp provides researchers with access to rich textual data, enabling in-depth analysis of parliamentary discourse over time. The platform currently features a collection of transcripts from debates in the German parliament, spanning 76 years of proceedings. With the advanced search functionality, researchers can apply logical operations to combine or exclude search criteria, making it easier to filter through vast amounts of parliamentary debate data. The search can be customised by combining multiple fields and applying logical operators to uncover complex patterns and insights within the data. Additional data processing steps were performed to enable web-based search and incorporate extra features. A key feature that differentiates PoliCorp is its intuitive web-based interface that enables users to query processed political texts without requiring programming skills. The user-friendly platform allows for the creation of custom subcorpora via search parameters, which can be freely downloaded in JSON format for further analysis.
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spellingShingle Open Political Corpora: Structuring, Searching, and Analyzing Political Text Collections with PoliCorp
Smirnova, Nina
Shahid, Muhammad Ahsan
Mayr, Philipp
Digital Libraries
In this work, we present PoliCorp (https://demo-pollux.gesis.org/), a web portal designed to facilitate the search and analysis of political text corpora. PoliCorp provides researchers with access to rich textual data, enabling in-depth analysis of parliamentary discourse over time. The platform currently features a collection of transcripts from debates in the German parliament, spanning 76 years of proceedings. With the advanced search functionality, researchers can apply logical operations to combine or exclude search criteria, making it easier to filter through vast amounts of parliamentary debate data. The search can be customised by combining multiple fields and applying logical operators to uncover complex patterns and insights within the data. Additional data processing steps were performed to enable web-based search and incorporate extra features. A key feature that differentiates PoliCorp is its intuitive web-based interface that enables users to query processed political texts without requiring programming skills. The user-friendly platform allows for the creation of custom subcorpora via search parameters, which can be freely downloaded in JSON format for further analysis.
title Open Political Corpora: Structuring, Searching, and Analyzing Political Text Collections with PoliCorp
topic Digital Libraries
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17465