Benchmarks for text analysis: A response to Budge and Pennings
Budge and Pennings (2007) criticize the “Wordscores” method for computerized content analysis on essentially two grounds. The first is that the best test of Wordscores accuracy is whether it can “reproduce the rich time series produced by the MRG/CMP covering a 50 year period” (Budge and Pennings, 2...
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Main Authors: | BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael |
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3977 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5235/viewcontent/ElStud2006_ResponseBP_pv.pdf |
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