A data science approach to 138 years of congressional speeches

The availability of automatic data analysis tools and large databases have enabled new ways of studying language and communication that were not possible in the pre-information era. Here we apply a quantitative analysis to a large dataset of USA congressional speeches made over a period of 138 years...

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Main Authors: Ethan C. Tucker, Colton J. Capps, Lior Shamir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020312615