Analyzing the structure and effectiveness of news headlines using NLP

We wanted to gather and analyze news content in order to look for similarities and differences in the way two journalists write headlines for their respective news articles and blog posts. Note: For a more technical, in-depth and interactive representation of this project, check out the Jupyter notebook we created. This includes sample code and more in depth descriptions of our approach. In linguistics, a parse tree is a rooted tree that represents the syntactic structure of a sentence, according to some pre-defined grammar. For example with a simple sentence like "The cat sat on the mat", a parse tree might look like this; Thankfully parsing our extracted headlines isn't too difficult.