get_ECB_press_conferences {sentopics}

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
)

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

Value

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