Semantic analysis electoral manifestos – Italian political elections 2018

We analysed the electoral manifestos presented by the parties participating in the forthcoming elections on March 4th 2018. We downloaded all the manifestos from the Transparency section of the Ministry of Interior’s website (http://dait.interno.gov.it/elezioni/trasparenza). All the documents are in PDF format and we applied OCR recognition methods to extract and process texts, which we then…