A sitting is a meeting of parliament members. While in the virtual environment, you will need to install the specific Gensim1 version needed for theCompassapproach. Inotherinstances,thebeginning of the line that specifies the speaker consists of the role of the parliament member, for example "SPEAKEROFTHEPARLIAMENT" (meaning the member of parliament presiding), followed, but not always, by the actual full name of the person in parenthesis. Theidisa unique number we assigned to each file. Themainchallenge of translating the files from Greek to English was the conversion of the Greek alphabetic numeralstoindo-arabicnumerals.

The dataset includes 1,280,918 speech fragments of Greek parliament members in debate order exported from 5,355 parliamentary sitting record files, with a total volume of 2.12 GB. The speeches extend chronologically from July 1989 up to July 2020. Table 1 shows the contents of the dataset. The names of the speakers are provided in the format "last_name patronym first_name (nickname)". In cases with more than one first or last names, the names that belong to the same category (first or last) are connected with a dash, e.g., "merk-ouri stamatiou amalia-maria (melina)". A parliamentary period is defined as the time span between one general election and the next. A parliamentary period includes multiple parliamentary sessions. A session is a time span of usually 10 months within a parliamentary period during which the parliament can convene and function as stipulated by the constitution.