ali-aka-ahmed/fomctranscriptanalysis

Textual analysis of FOMC Transcripts. My research examines the relationship between words said during FOMC meetings, and changes in Federal Funds Rate. You can walk through my data cleaning, processing, and analysis process here.

fomctranscriptanalysis's Issues

Stemming not working

Hi,
I am trying to rebuild your code and as I am totally new in programming and python I have a question/ issue. While executing the part of stemming I always get some errors. I refer to this part of the code:

FOMC19820202meetingStop.txt -> FOMC19820202meetingStopstemmed.txt
In [11]:

i = 0

for doc in sorted_transcripts:

!python porterstemmer.py {doc}

i += 1

print("File " + str(i) + " of " + str(len(sorted_transcripts)) + " Completed")

print(str(int(i * 100 / len(sorted_transcripts))) + "%")

We will now re-re-adjust our sorted_transcripts list
In [12]:

run all the adjusting of variable sorted_transcripts in order

mod_transcripts = []
for link in sorted_transcripts:
mod_transcripts.append(str(link)[:-4] + "stemmed.txt")
sorted_transcripts = mod_transcripts
print("Number of Documents", len(sorted_transcripts))
Number of Documents 216

Most likely I think there is somewhere a mistake within these two lines:

for doc in sorted_transcripts:

!python porterstemmer.py {doc}

What do you think?

Would help me a lot if you help me out.
As I mentioned, I am completely new in Programming, so I'm sorry if I miss something obvious for you.

All the best,
Lukas