Leader-Mentions-in-US-Congress

Table of contents

• General info
• Requirements
• Usage

General info

This project is implemented in Python3. It provides:

• A: a script for extracting spelling variants for person names from political speeches
• B: a script for counting mentions of political leaders and countries in political speeches (also using the name variants from A to increase recall)

Requirements

The script requires the following Python libraries:

• pandas
• sklearn
• Levenshtein

Information on how to install:

• pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started/install.html
• sklearn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html
• Levenshtein: https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein

Usage

A: Extraction of spelling variants for person names

To extract name variants, run:

python extract_name_variants.py 

B: Counting leader and country mentions in political speeches

To count leader and country mentions, run:

python count_mentions.py