# sejm_api

Contemporary official Polish Sejm speeches, supplementing existing parliamentary sources.

## Dataset description

- Source (upstream): https://api.sejm.gov.pl/
- Source documentation: https://api.sejm.gov.pl/sejm.html
- Domain: political/spoken
- Language: Polish (`pl`)
- License: `public-domain (official documents)`
- Created (range): 2023-01-11, 2026-07-03
- Added: 2026-08-22
- Contributor: Piotr Styła (`PiotrSty` on Hugging Face; `PiotrStyla` on GitHub).

## Licensing — traceable basis

Official parliamentary documents and materials are excluded from copyright by
article 4(2) of the Polish Copyright Act: https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2025/24/text/O/D20250024.pdf.

Reuse of public-sector information is governed by articles 2(12), 5, 6, 14,
15 and 17 of the Polish Open Data Act: https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2023/1524/text.html.

The per-document value intentionally matches the existing `parliamentary`
source. No unverified upstream Creative Commons license is asserted.

## Provenance and reproducibility

- Official provider: Kancelaria Sejmu RP.
- Immutable source release: `PiotrSty/sejm-speeches-corpus@v1.0.1`.
- Pinned source commit: `124557799608ce4212cf22fa90ca7904618de1b6`.
- Reviewed DynaWord base commit: `8cc48a3c564ac9edabfbbf012842ad11f70a3e5c`.
- Rebuild: `python src/fetch_sejm_api.py --help`.
- Source URLs and speech-level provenance are in `sejm_api.attribution.jsonl`.
- Slayer contribution digest: `sha256:38e42a791d68d593f82e1125f2bb94cd8f68212433e71d3e3da90f82d78eaf32`.

## Temporal novelty and deduplication

`parliamentary` ends on `2019-12-31` and registered
`parlamint_pl` ends on `2022-12-31`. Every contributed
record is dated on or after `2023-01-01`, so its date range overlaps neither
source. Exact duplicate speech texts within the contribution are removed using
SHA-1 fingerprints; this is not a claim of global cross-domain near-deduplication.

## Statistics

| Measure | Value |
|---|---:|
| Source rows inspected | 157,714 |
| Rows before 2023-01-01 | 118,902 |
| Exact duplicate texts removed | 0 |
| Documents published | 38,812 |
| Characters | 96,596,566 |
| Tokens (`cl100k_base` proxy) | 36,335,587 |
| Documents with speaker attribution | 38,812 |

Statistics are recomputed from the released Parquet file. The canonical schema
is `id, text, source, added, created, token_count, license, author`.

## Privacy and limitations

The upstream release heuristically redacts email addresses, PESEL identifiers
and unambiguous Polish telephone numbers. Public-official names and speech
attribution remain. Regex redaction is not a guarantee of zero personal data.
Downstream users must review applicable privacy, third-party and source terms.