Argentine Senate stenographic transcripts, 2000-2024: a speaker-attributed corpus
Zenodo, 2026
Every stenographic record the Argentine Senate still serves for its sittings between 2000 and 2024, parsed out of the chamber's own PDFs, with each passage attributed to the senator who spoke it and to the caucus that senator sat with that day.
- sittings
- 559
- passages
- 233,408
- words of speech
- 18.4M
- parser F1
- 0.996
The deposit holds the corpus, the pipeline that produces it, and the 36 hand-annotated pages the parser is scored against. Of the 233,408 passages, 151,761 are speech and 31,955 are typed stenographer's notes, and the rest are section headings, page furniture, and stray italics, kept so that any passage can be traced back to the page it came from. Each passage carries the speaker label the page printed, the senator that label resolves to, and the caucus that senator sat with on the day of the sitting, which is not the list they were elected on and differs from it for nearly a fifth of floor speech. The source PDFs are not redistributed. A manifest identifies each one by checksum and URL, and the shipped downloader fetches them again.
Coverage. 559 sittings, February 2000 to December 2024. Complete from 2004 onward and thinner before that, because the chamber's portal lists the earlier sittings but no longer serves the files.
Caveats. Two sittings of November 2001 are character recognition of scans and should be excluded from text analysis, and one sitting does not parse at all. 1,109 passages carry no speaker. The caucus is observed on 336 days across 25 years rather than continuously, and every row says which day it was read from.
Citation. Cite the concept DOI for the corpus, or the version DOI when the exact files matter. This is version 0.4.37, whose own DOI is 10.5281/zenodo.22661020.