PARLY Serbia: What is said in Parliament?

How to use PARLY

PARLY is available only in the official language.

Terms Mode: Search for topics and terms that interest you. The preview shows how frequent the term is used in debates overall. 

Speaker Mode: Find out what your member of parliament is saying about the topics you care about. 

Parties Mode: Find out which party is talking about what topics and terms more often.

Gender Mode: Find out what terms and topics are talked about by female as opposed to male MPs and vice-versa.

By clicking on the data points, you can click through the speeches in which the searched term was mentioned, and dig into the whole parliamentary sessions.


About the data

Session & Transcript Collection: Session metadata (title, date, number of addresses, transcript URL) for all available sessions of the Serbian National Assembly was retrieved from the Open Parliament platform (otvoreniparlament.rs) on 7 January 2026. After duplicate removal, 2,231 unique sessions remained. Session titles were translated from Serbian to English using Google Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview). Sessions were also classified by type (regular, extraordinary, special, constitutive, other).

Speech Extraction: Individual statements were extracted from session transcript pages, capturing speaker name, party affiliation, and speech text. This yielded 349,374 speeches with unique speech IDs, covering sessions from late 2013 through December 2025. Adjacent duplicate statements originating from the source were identified and removed.

Gender Identification: Speaker gender was identified for 1,755 unique speakers using Google Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview) with a structured output schema (male/female/unknown).

Documentation & Reproducibility: Full documentation is provided in the reproducible R/Quarto workflow.