| Challenge: | Parliamentary debates convey the arguments, interpretations and disputes that shape political decision-making. |
| Approach: | They outline available data, the data preparation process for preparing corpora of parliamentary debates and tools to obtain hand-coded annotations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus provides a valuable resource for research and teaching purposes. |
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