Paper ID: 2501.04484
PolInterviews -- A Dataset of German Politician Public Broadcast Interviews
Lukas Birkenmaier, Laureen Sieber, Felix Bergstein
This paper presents a novel dataset of public broadcast interviews featuring high-ranking German politicians. The interviews were sourced from YouTube, transcribed, processed for speaker identification, and stored in a tidy and open format. The dataset comprises 99 interviews with 33 different German politicians across five major interview formats, containing a total of 28,146 sentences. As the first of its kind, this dataset offers valuable opportunities for research on various aspects of political communication in the (German) political contexts, such as agenda-setting, interviewer dynamics, or politicians' self-presentation.
Submitted: Jan 8, 2025