Oda Nedregård: NLP

This page lists some useful resources for students and researchers interested in text-as-data

Collection of multiple Norwegian corpuses that are suitable for training large language models or conducting independent research. The corpus contains government reports, Stortingsforhandlingene, Evalueringsrapporter, laws and NOUs, online newspapers, Wikipedia, and out-of-copyrights books from the Norwegian National Library.

Norwegian Parliamentary Debates 1981 – 2021, Coming soon

All Parliamentary debates from the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) in the period 1981 – 2021. The data also contains info on committee membership, language, and other metadata. Can be merged with Fiva and Smith, 2022 for comprehensive background data on national-level politicians. Parliamentary speeches from 1994 – 2021 can be found in the replication package for ‘How Does Party Discipline Affect Legislative Behavior?’, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2024, which can be downloaded here.

List of useful Norwegian NLP resources, which covers both data/corpus and methods that supports NLP in Norwegian.

Well-documented and intuitive introduction to quantitative text analysis in R using the Quanteda package

Morphological and syntactic tagger for Norwegian. Useful for identifying grammatical morphemes and Part-Of-Speech tagging