get_ECB_speeches: Download and pre-process speeches from the European Central...
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get_ECB_speeches

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Download and pre-process speeches from the European Central Bank

Description

This helper function automatically retrieve the full data set of speeches made available by the ECB. In addition, it implements a number of pre-processing steps that may be turned on or off as needed.

Usage

get_ECB_speeches(
  filter_english = TRUE,
  clean_footnotes = TRUE,
  compute_sentiment = TRUE,
  tokenize_w_POS = FALSE
)

Arguments

`filter_english`	if `TRUE`, attempts to select English speeches only using `textcat::textcat()`.
`clean_footnotes`	if `TRUE`, attempts to clean footnotes from speeches texts using some regex patterns.
`compute_sentiment`	if `TRUE`, computes the sentiment of each speech using `sentometrics::compute_sentiment()` with the the Loughran & McDonald lexicon.
`tokenize_w_POS`	if `TRUE`, tokenizes and apply Part-Of-Speech tagging with `spacyr::spacy_parse()`. Nouns, adjectives and proper nouns are then extracted from the parsed speeches to form a `tokens` object.