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While they don't ask upfront for money, they make a commendable effort of actually keeping people away from those files by asking people to email them with a st
by Mithaldu 13y ago
While they don't ask upfront for money, they make a commendable effort of actually keeping people away from those files by asking people to email them with a stated research goal. Casually interested normal folks need not apply.
It doesn't help either that their text files are in PDF instead of a format that can actually be programmatically processed.
- jcutrell 13y agoIt certainly would be useful to do some sort of programmatic analysis of speeches mapped over time. Sentiment analysis. Repeated phrases. Cross-reference with others' phrases to see who's saying the same things at the same times. Oh well. I guess you can print it out really nicely. And it's "portable"!
- hackula1 13y agoNot exactly trivial, but text can be extracted from a pdf.