get_ECB_press_conferences: Download press conferences from the European Central Bank

In sentopics: Tools for Joint Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Textual Data

Download press conferences from the European Central Bank

Description

This helper function automatically retrieve the full data set of press conferences made available by the ECB. It implements a number of pre-processing steps used to remove the Q&A section from the text.

Usage

get_ECB_press_conferences(
  years = 1998:2021,
  language = "en",
  data.table = TRUE
)

Arguments

years	the years for which press conferences should be retrieved
language	the language in which press conferences should be retrieved
data.table	if TRUE, returns a data.table. Otherwise, return a list in which each element is a press conference.

Value

Depending on the arguments, returns either a data.frame or a quanteda::tokens object containing press conferences of the ECB.

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