The 5th ParlaCLARIN Workshop on Interoperability, Multilinguality, and Multimodality in Parliamentary Corpora will be held as part of the LREC 2026 International Conference, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 16 May 2026.
Parliamentary data is an important source of scholarly and socially relevant content of interest to researchers from a number of disciplines in digital humanities and social sciences, such as political science, sociology, history, and (socio)linguistics, as well as investigative journalists, citizen scientists and potentially the general public. It represents the actual debates taking place in parliament with potential to be contextualised with corresponding reports, legal context, minutes, data from social media, records of decisions taken, and further analysis over the impact of those in the society. Moreover this material covers a broad spectrum of topics and falls outside of copyright allowing diverse types of analysis to be carried out once the data is accessible via infrastructures supporting interoperable metadata schemes.
This 5th ParlaCLARIN workshop is a continuation of the 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 editions held at the respective LREC conferences, aiming to bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates from across diverse disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Topics of interest include:
- Compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical or contemporary parliamentary written or audio records
- Harmonisation of existing multilingual parliamentary resources, containing either synchronic or diachronic data or both
- Linking or comparing of parliamentary records with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, and social media posts, and to other sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets (in particular for the description of speakers, political parties, etc.)
- Multimodal corpora, containing video, speech, speech transcripts, official proceeding and research using such data
- Multilingual corpora, possibly containing live interpretation into spoken or signed languages and research using such data
- Position papers on the status and the future of the field of parliamentary corpus collection and research
Paper submission deadline: 19 February 2026
More information about the ParlaCLARIN V Workshop and the submission of papers can be found here.
