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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.
+-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*’
+using the wildcard star to return all variants, terrorism, terrorist, etc. Results were further refined to only those associated with
+George W. Bush’s name. Further refined by only those documents tagged as ‘spoken addresses or remarks,’ 
+(to filter out noise from some policy papers, and bureaucratic writs and documents). 
+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, 
+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