curate_enntt_data: Curate ENNTT Data

In qtkit: Quantitative Text Kit

Curate ENNTT Data

Description

This function processes and curates ENNTT (European Parliament) data from a specified directory. It handles both .dat files (containing XML metadata) and .tok files '(containing text content).

Usage

curate_enntt_data(dir_path)

Arguments

dir_path

A string. The path to the directory containing the ENNTT data files. Must be an existing directory.

Details

The function expects a directory containing paired .dat and .tok files with matching names, as found in the raw ENNTT data https://github.com/senisioi/enntt-release. The .dat files should contain XML-formatted metadata with attributes:

• session_id: Unique identifier for the parliamentary session

• mepid: Member of European Parliament ID

• state: Country or state representation

• seq_speaker_id: Sequential ID within the session

The .tok files should contain the corresponding text content, one entry per line.

Value

A tibble containing the curated ENNTT data with columns:

• session_id: Parliamentary session identifier

• speaker_id: Speaker's MEP ID

• state: Representative's state/country

• session_seq: Sequential position in session

• text: Speech content

• type: Corpus type identifier

Examples

# Example using simulated data bundled with the package
example_data <- system.file("extdata", "simul_enntt", package = "qtkit")
curated_data <- curate_enntt_data(example_data)

str(curated_data)

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