Efficient Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers for Political Text

Masked Language Models for Narrative Classification

Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding

Diffusion of Ideas

Flipflopping in the European Parliament: Electoral and Intra-party Politics of MEPs’ Migration Speeches

Probing Ciritical Learning Dynamics of PLMs for Hate Speech Detection

PolitiCause: Causality in Political Texts

How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data

Liberal mimicry and revisionist powers in the UN General Assembly

Undermining the Parliamentary Patriarchy: Woman, Political Speech, and Power Around the World

Is Propaganda Front-Page News?

Measurement of Social Constructs with NLP using Two Case Studies of Workplace Depression and Sexist Language

Paying the Piper: Government advertising and media bias

Analysing Political Texts with Less Data and Deep Transfer Learning

How Effective are (Disruptive) Protests at Shifting Public Discourse in Activists’ Preferred Direction?

Language Complexity in Parliament: Use and Effect of Simple Language Among Populist and Non-Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates

Using Imperfect Surrogates for Downstream Inference: Design-based Supervised Learning for Social Science Applications of Large Language Models

NLP-supported (e-)deliberation: interdisciplinary challenges and real-world applications

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Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches

Battle of Words: Dynamics of Echo Chambers among European Elites

The Politics of Right and Wrong: Moral Appeals in Political Communication across Time, Space, Ideology, and Topics

Political Metaphors in U.S. Governor Speeches

Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration

Visuals within Multimodal Studies

Sequential Seeded LDA: A Topic Model for Theory-driven Classification of Sentences

Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies: An Analysis of Open-ended Survey Responses

Word Embeddings for the Analysis of Ideological Placement in Parliamentary Corpora [Video]

Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches

Fairness and Inclusion in NLP: Challenges and Opportunities [Video]

Validating Topic Models: Does it matter how we do it? [Video]

Who are they talking to? Automated measurement of group appeals in political texts [Video]

When do political parties listen to interest groups? [Paper] [Video]

Multilingual Topic Models [Paper] [Slides] [Code]

Three Gaps in Computational Text Analysis Methods for Social Sciences: A Research Agenda [Paper]

How Simple Messages Affect Voters' Knowledge and Their Perceptions of Politicans - Evidence from Large-Scale Survey Experiment [Paper]

Linking Datasets on Organizations Using Half A Billion Open Collaborated Records 

Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication

Troublemakers in the streets? A framing of protest in the UK 1992-2017 [Video]

Twitter-Demographer: A Flow-based Tool to Enrich Twitter Data [Paper]