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CORPUS 1B: A corpus of President George W. Bush's terrorism-related discourse, for a historical research project.
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Period: September 11, 2001 (preferable to starting at the beginning of the Bush presidency, for a clean break between pre-9/11 and post-9/11.
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-January 20, 2005 (the end of Bush’s first term).
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Search parameters: All documents on the American Presidency Project site within the above timeframe returned through a keyword search ‘terror*’
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using the wildcard star to return all variants, terrorism, terrorist, etc. Results were further refined to only those associated with
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George W. Bush’s name. Further refined by only those documents tagged as ‘spoken addresses or remarks,’
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(to filter out noise from some policy papers, and bureaucratic writs and documents).
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Also, for the sake of a coherent voice in the fine-tuning data.
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Composition: a total of records 1,275 were returned. (including a range of spoken remarks from state of the union addresses,
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to remarks to various communities all around the US, to remarks to the press, remarks following discussions with foreign dignitaries, etc).
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Here’s the link to these search results: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/advanced-search?field-keywords=terror%2A&field-keywords2=&field-keywords3=&from%5Bdate%5D=09-11-2001&to%5Bdate%5D=01-20-2005&person2=&items_per_page=100&f%5B0%5D=field_docs_person%3A200299&f%5B1%5D=field_docs_category%3A8
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Word count pre-cleaning: 2,227,662
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Word count post-cleaning: 2,236,541
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