| # sejm_interpellations |
| |
| Interpelacje i zapytania pisemne z 10. kadencji Sejmu, wraz z odpowiedziami |
| ministerstw dostępnymi jako HTML. |
| |
| ## Dataset description |
| |
| - **Source (upstream):** https://api.sejm.gov.pl/ |
| - **Source documentation:** https://api.sejm.gov.pl/sejm.html |
| - **Domain:** political/written |
| - **Language:** Polish (`pl`) |
| - **License:** `public-domain (official documents)` |
| - **Created (range):** 2023-11-15, 2026-09-03 |
| - **Added:** 2026-09-05 |
| - **OCR:** no |
| |
| ## Licensing — traceable basis |
| |
| Official parliamentary materials are excluded from copyright under Polish |
| Copyright Act art. 4 pkt 2 |
| (https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2025/24/text/O/D20250024.pdf). Reuse of |
| public-sector information is governed by the Polish Open Data Act arts. 2(12), |
| 5, 14 and 17 (https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2023/1524/text.html). Same basis |
| as the shipped `sejm_api` shard. No Creative Commons grant is asserted. |
|
|
| ## What the texts are |
|
|
| Written questions from MPs to ministers (`interpellations`, |
| `writtenQuestions`) and the ministry replies that the API serves as HTML. |
| Spoken floor speeches are **not** included — those are `sejm_api` (2023–) and |
| [#18](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SlayerLab/polish-dynaword/discussions/18) |
| (2011–2022). Same kadencja, different genre. |
|
|
| PDF-only replies (`onlyAttachment: true`) and keyless prolongation stubs are |
| skipped. Term 9 listed `X-Total-Count: 0` on both collections at fetch time |
| and is not in this shard. Terms 7–8 were not fetched (PPC already covers |
| interpellations through 2019). |
|
|
| ## Provenance and reproducibility |
|
|
| ```bash |
| python3 src/fetch_sejm_interpellations.py --out ~/speakleash --terms 9,10 --workers 4 |
| python3 src/build_dynaword.py --sources sejm_interpellations --speakleash-dir ~/speakleash --out . |
| ``` |
|
|
| `src/fetch_sejm_interpellations.py` pulls HTML `/body` endpoints, strips |
| header chrome (nr / recipient / title / signatory / date) into `meta`, then |
| runs pattern PII redaction (the `scrub_pii` pass from #20 at build time — |
| phones → `[Telefon]`; e-mail / PESEL / NIP / REGON / IBAN → `[PII]`). That |
| in-repo scrubber was removed in #38; PII now goes through |
| [SlayerLab/NERGAL](https://huggingface.co/SlayerLab/NERGAL) and **this shard |
| must be re-run through NERGAL before it is admitted to a release** (it quotes |
| constituency casework naming private persons). Names of public officials stay. |
| `build_dynaword.py` applies the usual gates (strip, `< 200` chars, Polish |
| diacritic ratio, exact sha1). |
|
|
| ## Why include it |
|
|
| The corpus already has spoken Sejm (`parliamentary`, `sejm_api`). This adds |
| the written Q&A register for the current term: longer, formal, ministry-voiced |
| replies that do not appear in the speech shards — the argumentative |
| question/answer pair is a document type the corpus otherwise lacks entirely. |
| Caveats for downstream users: single term (10th, 2023-11-15 – 2026-09-03), and |
| interpellations quote constituency casework that can name private citizens (see |
| Privacy below — a NERGAL pass is a release gate). |
|
|
| ## Statistics |
|
|
| | Measure | Value | |
| |---|---:| |
| | JSONL rows read | 26,503 | |
| | Exact duplicate texts removed | 553 | |
| | Documents published | 25,950 | |
| | Characters | 78,607,831 | |
| | Tokens (`cl100k_base` proxy) | 28,180,895 | |
| | Documents with author attribution | 25,950 | |
|
|
| JSONL mix before dedup: 19,413 interpellations, 3,889 written questions, |
| 2,730 interpellation replies, 471 written-question replies. All term 10. |
|
|
| ## Filters applied (build_dynaword.py) |
| |
| - drop documents < 200 chars: **0** |
| - drop non-Polish (diacritic ratio): **0** |
| - exact sha1 dedup: **553** |
| - OCR alpha-ratio: **0** |
| - read 26,503 → kept 25,950 |
| |
| ## Sample |
| |
| Question (author `Daniel Milewski`): |
| |
| ``` |
| Szanowny Panie Ministrze, |
| |
| latem 2022 roku na podlaskiej części granicy z Białorusią ukończono zaporę |
| fizyczną, czyli 5,5-metrowy płot ze stalowych przęseł zwieńczony drutem |
| żyletkowym. Ogrodzenie stoi na 186 kilometrach. […] |
| ``` |
| |
| Reply (author `sekretarz stanu w Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych |
| Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski`): |
| |
| ``` |
| Szanowny Panie Marszałku, |
| |
| w odpowiedzi na zapytanie poselskie nr 3472 pana posła Bronisława Foltyna |
| w sprawie Instytutu Polskiego w Szwajcarii, uprzejmie informuję, co |
| następuje. […] |
| ``` |
| |
| ## Privacy and limitations |
| |
| Regex PII scrub at fetch time is not a guarantee of zero personal data. |
| Constituency casework in interpellations can name private persons; those |
| names are left in (officials acting in capacity are not treated as PII). |
| Downstream users must review applicable privacy and source terms. Per |
| AGENTS.md the shard must be re-run through |
| [SlayerLab/NERGAL](https://huggingface.co/SlayerLab/NERGAL) before release; |
| merge with `release: None` is fine meanwhile. |
| |
