sentopics (version 0.7.4)

get_ECB_press_conferences: 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
)

Value

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

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::data.table. Otherwise, return a list in which each element is a press conference.