A corpus of the Christmas speeches delivered by the head of state of Spain from 1937 to 2018. The corpus consists of 76 speeches in European Spanish delivered by the head of state (dictator Francisco Franco, king Juan Carlos I and king Felipe VI) from 1937 to 2018. For information about the traditional Christmas speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve_National_Speech.

This project includes:

1. the texts of the speeches
2. a Python interface using NLTK and spaCy to query the corpus
3. a set of HTML visualizations using scattertext libraries. (see https://lirondos.github.io/discursos-de-navidad/ [in Spanish]).

The repo contains the following files:

• The data folder contains the files with the Christmas speeches from 1937 to 2018 in txt format and the metadata associated with every speech (year, speaker, URL were it was retrieved).
• The Speech class creates the object Speech with the information for a given speech.
• The Corpus class creates the corpus object that contains the speeches to be analyzed. This class uses the files inside the speeches folder. This file also contain the methods to perform the lexical analysis of the created corpus.
• The visualize.py script creates interactive HTML visualization from TF-IDF measures using scattertext library. The visualization files are stored inside the visualization folder.

The files that have a main method than can be executed are:

• corpus.py (creates several corpus objects for different time periods of time and calls the radiography method in order to get their lexical analysis)
• visualize.py (creates an instance of the corpus class and generates several visualization files with TF-IDF measures using the scattertext library)

This project requires the following libraries:

• nltk
• spacy
• pandas
• scattertext
• markovify
• os
• re
• time
• newspaper
• matplotlib

A previous version of this project (with speeches only from 1975 on and a markov speech generator) can be found at https://github.com/lirondos/orgulloysatisfaccion