Week 03
Text Similarity, Text re-use and Complexity
Topics
- More about the vector space model
- How do we compare texts?
- How do we evaluate similarity in text?
- How do we evaluate complexity in text?
- Why should we care about complexity in text?
Readings
Required Readings
[GMB] - Chapter 7
Applied Papers:
Spirling, Arthur. 2016. “Democratization and Linguistic Complexity”, Journal of Politics.
Benoit, K., Munger, K. and Spirling, A. 2017. Measuring and Explaining Political Sophistication Through Textual Complexity
Linder, Fridolin, Bruce Desmarais, Matthew Burgess, and Eugenia Giraudy. “Text as policy: Measuring policy similarity through bill text reuse.” Policy Studies Journal 48, no. 2 (2020): 546-574.
Coding Materials