Week 09

Word Embeddings: Social Science Applications

Author

Tiago Ventura

Published

March 20, 2024

Topics

  • Applications of Word Embeddings to social science problems

Readings

Required Readings

  • Rodman, E., 2020. A Timely Intervention: Tracking the Changing Meanings of Political Concepts with Word Vectors. Political Analysis, 28(1), pp.87-111.

  • Gennaro, Gloria, and Elliott Ash. “Emotion and reason in political language.” The Economic Journal 132, no. 643 (2022): 1037-1059.

  • Rheault, Ludovic, and Christopher Cochrane. “Word embeddings for the analysis of ideological placement in parliamentary corpora.” Political Analysis 28, no. 1 (2020): 112-133.

  • Austin C. Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans. 2019. “The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings.” American Sociological Review 84, no. 5: 905–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122419877135.

  • Garg, Nikhil, Londa Schiebinger, Dan Jurafsky and James Zou. 2018. “Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(16):E3635–E3644.

Coding Materials

Slides

Problem Set 2

  • https://classroom.github.com/a/WcrFfilI