US-Congress-Corpora-Builder

A set of Python tools to download the Senate and House transcripts and convert them to usable text.

Usage

sh setup.sh
sh build-corpera.sh

The text transcripts will be in transcripts-txt/ and will be named by chamber of congress and date.

Downloading PDFs by date range
Converting them into usable text
Seperating the text by speaker and eliminating non-spoken text (See SeperateSpeeches.py)

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 5 Commits
.gitignore		.gitignore
ConvertToText.py		ConvertToText.py
DownloadTranscripts.py		DownloadTranscripts.py
FixCharacters.py		FixCharacters.py
LICENSE		LICENSE
README.md		README.md
SeperateSpeeches.py		SeperateSpeeches.py
UnhyphenizeWords.py		UnhyphenizeWords.py
build-corpera.sh		build-corpera.sh
requirements.txt		requirements.txt
setup.sh		setup.sh