How to Install PolitePol on Windows 10

PolitePol is an open-source corpus analysis tool designed to analyze political discourse. Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to install PolitePol on Windows 10:

Step 1: Download and Install Python 3.8

PolitePol requires Python 3.8 or higher. You can download the latest version of Python from the official website: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows.

Once the download is complete, run the installer and choose the option to add Python to your PATH.

Step 2: Download PolitePol from Github

PolitePol is available on Github: https://github.com/taroved/pol. Click the 'Code' button and select 'Download ZIP'.

Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a directory of your choice.

Step 3: Install Required Libraries

Before running PolitePol, you need to install some required libraries. Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you extracted PolitePol.

Run the following command to install the required libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Set up the Configuration File

PolitePol requires a configuration file to specify the input file and some other options. Copy the 'config.ini.template' file to 'config.ini'.

cp config.ini.template config.ini

Open the 'config.ini' file and specify the input file path and any other options you want to configure.

Step 5: Run PolitePol

Now that the setup is complete, you can run PolitePol using the following command:

python politepol.py

This will run PolitePol and generate output files based on the options specified in the configuration file.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed PolitePol on Windows 10!

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