Validating estimates of latent traits from textual data using human judgment as a benchmark
Automated and statistical methods for estimating latent political traits and classes from textual data hold great promise, because virtually every political act involves the production of text. Statistical models of natural language features, however, are heavily laden with unrealistic assumptions a...
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Main Authors: | LOWE, Will, BENOIT, Kenneth |
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2013
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