This repository contains the parsing code described in Section 3.1 of Three Cheers For Partisanship [1]. It is used to parse the raw transcripts of presidential primary debates available from the American Presidency Project [2].

To get the code, simply clone the repo into a local directory:

git clone https://github.com/ethanroday/three-cheers/

To fetch and parse the debate transcripts, run the following from the src/ directory:

python TranscriptFetcher.py
python TranscriptParser.py

The parsed transcripts will be output data/debates/parsedTranscripts.

This code takes dependencies on the following libraries, all of which can be installed using pip:

• requests (pip install requests)
• BeautifulSoup (pip install beautifulsoup4)
• jsonschema (pip install jsonschema)
• nltk (pip install nltk)

[1] Roday, Ethan. Three Cheers For Partisanship: Lexical Framing and Applause in U.S. Presidential Primary Debates. Master's thesis, University of Washington, 2017.

[2] Peters, Gerhard and Woolley John T. The American Presidency Project, 1999-2017. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php.