  Parliamentary debates represent a large and partly unexploited treasure trove
of publicly accessible texts. In the German-speaking area, there is a certain
deficit of uniformly accessible and annotated corpora covering all
German-speaking parliaments at the national and federal level. To address this
gap, we introduce the German Parliament Corpus (GerParCor). GerParCor is a
genre-specific corpus of (predominantly historical) German-language
parliamentary protocols from three centuries and four countries, including
state and federal level data. In addition, GerParCor contains conversions of
scanned protocols and, in particular, of protocols in Fraktur converted via an
OCR process based on Tesseract. All protocols were preprocessed by means of the
NLP pipeline of spaCy3 and automatically annotated with metadata regarding
their session date. GerParCor is made available in the XMI format of the UIMA
project. In this way, GerParCor can be used as a large corpus of historical
texts in the field of political communication for various tasks in NLP.
