We present the Knesset Corpus, a corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings
containing over 30 million sentences (over 384 million tokens) from all the
(plenary and committee) protocols held in the Israeli parliament between 1998
and 2022. Sentences are annotated with morpho-syntactic information and are
associated with detailed meta-information reflecting demographic and political
properties of the speakers, based on a large database of parliament members and
factions that we compiled. We discuss the structure and composition of the
corpus and the various processing steps we applied to it. To demonstrate the
utility of this novel dataset we present two use cases. We show that the corpus
can be used to examine historical developments in the style of political
discussions by showing a reduction in lexical richness in the proceedings over
time. We also investigate some differences between the styles of men and women
speakers. These use cases exemplify the potential of the corpus to shed light
on important trends in the Israeli society, supporting research in linguistics,
political science, communication, law, etc.

我们介绍了以色列议会辩论记录的语料库，包括从 1998 年到 2022 年以色列议会中所有主要和委员会的记录，共有 3000 万句子（超过 3.84 亿个单词）。句子注有形态 - 句法信息，并与我们编制的一个议员和派别的大数据库相关的详细元信息。我们讨论了语料库的结构和组成，以及我们应用于它的各种处理步骤。为了演示这个新颖数据集的效用，我们提出了两个使用案例。我们展示了该语料库可以用于研究政治讨论风格的历史发展，通过展示辩论中词汇丰富度随时间的减少。我们还研究了男性和女性发言人之间的一些风格差异。这些使用案例展示了该语料库揭示以色列社会重要趋势的潜力，支持语言学、政治学、传媒学、法学等领域的研究。