When and where: 16 February, 23 February, 9 March, 16 March, 23 March 2018; Arts Building 3020.
Instructor: Professor Kenneth Benoit, kbenoit@tcd.ie. Assignment marking by Stefan Muüller.
Overview The course surveys methods for systematically extracting quantitative information from political text for social scientific purposes, starting with classical content analysis and dictionary-based methods, to classification methods, and state-of-the-art scaling methods and topic models for estimating quantities from text using statistical techniques.
Meeting times 5 February, 12 February, 11 March, 18 March.
Course Handout Short Outline The course surveys methods for systematically extracting quantitative information from political text for social scientific purposes, starting with classical content analysis and dictionary-based methods, to classification methods, and state-of-the-art scaling methods and topic models for estimating quantities from text using statistical techniques.