Treating words as data with error: Uncertainty in text statements of policy positions
Political text offers extraordinary potential as a source of information about the policy positions of political actors. Despite recent advances in computational text analysis, human interpretative coding of text remains an important source of text-based data, ultimately required to validate more au...
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Main Authors: | BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael, MIKHAYLOV, Slava |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2009
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3990 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5248/viewcontent/blm2009ajps_pv.pdf |
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