Computational methods for the analysis of climate change communication: Towards an integrative and reflexive approach

MS Schäfer, V Hase - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Computational methods, in particular text‐as‐data or Natural Language Processing (NLP)
approaches, have become popular to study climate change communication as a global and …

Less annotating, more classifying: Addressing the data scarcity issue of supervised machine learning with deep transfer learning and BERT-NLI

M Laurer, W Van Atteveldt, A Casas, K Welbers - Political Analysis, 2024 - cambridge.org
Supervised machine learning is an increasingly popular tool for analyzing large political text
corpora. The main disadvantage of supervised machine learning is the need for thousands …

Performing an inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with a large language model: An exploration and provocation on the limits of the approach

S De Paoli - Social Science Computer Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful generative Artificial Intelligence
solutions. This paper presents results and reflections of an experiment done with the LLM …

Topicgpt: A prompt-based topic modeling framework

CM Pham, A Hoyle, S Sun, P Resnik, M Iyyer - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Topic modeling is a well-established technique for exploring text corpora. Conventional
topic models (eg, LDA) represent topics as bags of words that often require" reading the tea …

What we can do and cannot do with topic modeling: A systematic review

Y Chen, Z Peng, SH Kim, CW Choi - Communication Methods and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Topic modeling has become an effective tool for communication scholars to explore large
amounts of texts. However, empirical studies applying topic modeling often face the critical …

Capturing a news frame–comparing machine-learning approaches to frame analysis with different degrees of supervision

O Eisele, T Heidenreich, O Litvyak… - Communication …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The empirical identification of frames drawing on automated text analysis has been
discussed intensely with regard to the validity of measurements. Adding to an evolving …

Cross-lingual classification of political texts using multilingual sentence embeddings

H Licht - Political Analysis, 2023 - cambridge.org
Established approaches to analyze multilingual text corpora require either a duplication of
analysts' efforts or high-quality machine translation (MT). In this paper, I argue that …

Noise pollution: A multi-step approach to assessing the consequences of (not) validating search terms on automated content analyses

D Mahl, G von Nordheim, L Guenther - Digital Journalism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in analytical methodologies and an avalanche of digitized data have opened new
avenues for (digital) journalism research—and with it, new challenges. One of these …

Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning

J Stromer-Galley, P Rossini - Journal of Information Technology & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars have access to a rich source of political discourse via social media. Although
computational approaches to understand this communication are being used, they tend to …

Can Large Language Models emulate an inductive Thematic Analysis of semi-structured interviews? An exploration and provocation on the limits of the approach and …

S De Paoli - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13014, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful generative Artificial Intelligence
solutions which can be applied to several fields and areas of work. This paper presents …