# 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 `src/scrub_pii.py` (phones → `[Telefon]`; email / PESEL / NIP / REGON /
IBAN → `[PII]`). 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.

## 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.