Week 11

Text as Data II: Supervised Learning

Author

Tiago Ventura

Published

November 18, 2025

Lectures Notes:

Text analysis II: Supervised models html – Jupyter Notebook

Slides

Text analysis II

Readings

Topic models : David Blei, Probabilistic Topic Models
Dictionary Methods: Rathje, Steve, Jay J. Van Bavel, and Sander Van Der Linden. “Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 26 (2021): e2024292118
Toxicity using Google Perspective API: Ventura, Tiago, Kevin Munger, Katherine McCabe, and Keng-Chi Chang. “Connective effervescence and streaming chat during political debates.” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (2021).
Using ChatGPT to Scale Politicians: Wu, Patrick Y., Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, and Solomon Messing. “Large Language Models Can Be Used to Estimate the Latent Positions of Politicians.