Name the people cited
The public figures, parties and media of a closed list are recognised in the sentences and counted video by video; a private person is never counted.
- 1The names of people, parties and media are spotted in the sentences.
- 2Only the names of a closed list of public figures are kept.
- 3A private person named in a video is never counted.
- 4Each name is counted video by video, by month and by orientation.
- List
- 240 entries, public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries
- Guard
- patterns checked against namesakes; named entities (GLiNER) as a control
- Writes
- mentions per video and per entry, by month and by orientation
A predefined list of public figures and organisations
Public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries are counted from a predefined list of 240 entries, searched for in the transcripts. A full-text search finds candidate sentences, then a regular expression confirms the name and rules out namesakes. “Le Maire” is only counted with “Bruno”, and “Le Pen” on its own is assigned to Marine Le Pen, except after “Jean-Marie” or “Maréchal”.
The people on the list are all public figures. They are French, Quebec and foreign political leaders, and well-known figures from the media, intellectual life or business. Private individuals mentioned in videos, such as victims or witnesses, are never counted. The automatic named-entity recognition of the method is not used here. It too often confused pronouns and proper names. On the English pages, foreign names appear in their usual English form (Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu).