About

This project is a compilation of basic text analysis tools to understand and analyze German texts. As an example the project focuses on programmatic texts for the German parliament elections 1949 - 2017.

Install

Docker

Kindly install via cloning and generating the Docker container.

Clone the repository first. Will take several minutes based on your connection bandwidth!!!

git clone https://github.io/chris1869/policy_analysis

Create the docker container:

docker build -t policy-analysis .

Run initial test to verify installation:

docker run policy-analysis

Manual installation (not tested)

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to all contributors of the third party packages that are used in this project. You made these analyses as convenient as possible.

Wordcloud

https://github.com/amueller/word_cloud

Readability

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/readability

Ucto

https://proycon.github.io/LaMachine/

Treetagger

http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/

Tiger Annotation Schema - POS

Some more information on the position of speech (POS) tags can be found on (Tiger Annotation Schema):

https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/professuren/korpuslinguistik/mitarbeiter-innen/hagen/STTS_Tagset_Tiger

Election programs 1949 - 2017

Many thanks to the German parties and their respective endowments for providing the PDFs of the election programs online. In the future, a verified text of the older PDF scans would be great.

Disclaimer

This project wants to promote adoption of open source text analyses tools for German texts. There is no intend to judge, evaluate or comment on election programs. My hope is that it promotes a wider interest in the historic changes that drove election programs, better understand historic context and promotes reading the current election programs.

From what I was reading, the PDFs provided by parties and endowments the PDFs can be used for non-commercial reasons as is. Kindly approach me if this is not the case.