TheJeanneCompany/french-senate-session-reports

🏛️ French Senate Session Reports Dataset

A dataset of parliamentary debates and sessions reports from the French Senate.
508,647,861 tokens of high-quality French text transcribed manually from Senate Sessions

Description

This dataset consists of all session reports from the French Senate debates, crawled from the official website senat.fr. It provides high-quality text data of parliamentary discussions, covering a wide range of political, economic, and social topics debated in the upper house of the French Parliament.

The dataset is valuable for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as text classification, question answering, summarization, named entity recognition (NER), and text generation.

Data gathering and processing workflow

1. Initial data was crawled from French Senate Official Website using a custom home-made web-archiving crawler producing WARC files (spec)
2. Text was then cleaned and post-processed from the WARC files into the parquet file, ensuring quality of the extracted text.

Details

Source: French Senate Official Website
Language: French 🇫🇷
Time Period: every report from 1996 to March 4th 2025
Number of Reports: 3314
Tokens: 508,647,861
Size: 436MB
Format: parquet

Contact

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Don't hesitate to contact us if you want the original WARC files or in a different format.
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Licensing & Legal Considerations

The dataset is derived from public domain parliamentary reports, which are not subject to copyright protection (Article L.122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code). However, users must adhere to the following conditions from senat.fr:

1. Attribution: Cite "www.senat.fr" as the source.
2. Integrity: The text must remain unaltered.
3. No Commercial Use for Videos, Images and Audios: This dataset does not include video/images/audio content due to copyright restrictions.
   The header logotype is part of a French registered trademark and used according to French fair-use (Article L.711-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code)

Potential Applications

Political Science Research: Analyze trends in legislative debates.
Journalism: Quickly extract summaries and key quotes.
AI & NLP Training: Improve models for French language understanding.
Civic Engagement: Provide accessible insights into government discussions.

Limitations & Ethical Considerations

Bias & Representation: The dataset reflects the political landscape of the French Senate and may contain biased narratives.
Privacy Concerns: While the reports are public, contextual data (e.g., speaker metadata) should be used responsibly.
Misuse Risk: Any NLP application using this dataset should avoid misinformation or out-of-context misrepresentation.

Citation

If you find the data useful, please cite:

@misc{FrenchSenateTranscripts2025,
  author = {French Senate (Processed by TheJeanneCompany)},
  title = {French Senate Debate Reports Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://huggingface.co./datasets/TheJeanneCompany/french-senate-session-reports}
}

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