Software
Package versions and total download counts (from the Posit CRAN mirror, since 2012) were last updated 1 November 2026.
Packages I created and maintain
quanteda Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data (with Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Paul Nulty, Adam Obeng, Stefan Müller, Akitaka Matsuo, and William Lowe)
quanteda.textstats Textual Statistics for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data (with Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Jiong Wei Lua, and Jouni Kuha)
quanteda.textplots Plots for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data (with Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Adam Obeng, Stefan Müller, and Akitaka Matsuo)
quanteda.textmodels Scaling Models and Classifiers for Textual Data (with Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Patrick O. Perry, Benjamin Lauderdale, Johannes Gruber, and William Lowe)
quanteda.tidy tidyverse Extensions for quanteda
readtext Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files (with Adam Obeng)
spacyr Wrapper to the spaCy NLP Library (with Akitaka Matsuo)
quanteda.corpora A collection of corpora for quanteda
quanteda.dictionaries Dictionaries for text analysis (with Stefan Müller)
stopwords Multilingual Stopword Lists (with David Muhr and Kohei Watanabe)
nsyllable Count Syllables in Character Vectors
Packages I developed as a co-author
quallmer Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models (with Seraphine F. Maerz)
quallmer.app Interactive Validation App for quallmer (with Seraphine F. Maerz)
tokenizers Fast, Consistent Tokenization of Natural Language Text (with Lincoln A. Mullen, Os Keyes, Dmitry Selivanov, and Jeffrey Arnold)
Packages to which I have contributed
tidytext Text Mining using dplyr, ggplot2, and Other Tidy Tools
ellmer Chat with Large Language Models
Other software
- Wordscores: software for coding political texts, for Stata (no longer hosted).
- EzI: A(n Easy) Program for Ecological Inference, with Gary King, 1996–2002. Computer software for MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows 95, written in Gauss. Winner of the 1998 APSA Best Research Software Award. gking.harvard.edu/ezi
Datasets
- Party Policy in Modern Democracies, with Michael Laver, 2004–2005. Expert survey scores of policy positions of political parties in 47 countries. Accompanies the book of the same title. Data and book website
- Record of American Democracy, 1984–1990, with Gary King, Bradley Palmquist, Greg Adams, Micah Altman, Claudine Gay, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Kenneth R. Mayer, and Eric Reinhardt, 1999. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Number 2162. Winner of the 1999 APSA Best Research Web Site Award.
Grants
MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 3, Singapore Ministry of Education, for “The Curation of Blue Zone 3.0 – Examining Societal Nudges to Promote Well-being of a Super-aged Population” (MOET32025-0006), 2026–2031. Co-Principal Investigator. S$10,212,410 total.
MOE 2025 Special Programmatic Grant, Singapore Ministry of Education, for “Computational Social Simulations for Aiding Policy Design” (SSRC2025-SPG-001), 2026–2031. Co-Principal Investigator. S$1,727,392 total.
Discovery Project, Australian Research Council, for “AI analysis of deliberation quality in Australian Parliament debates”, 2024–2026. Partner Investigator. AUD 370,230 total.
ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant, European Commission, for “QUANTEDA: Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data” (number 812960), 2018–2020. €150,000 total.
Horizon 2020 Grant, European Commission, for “EUENGAGE: Bridging the gap between public opinion and European leadership: Engaging a dialogue on the future path of Europe” (number 649281), 2015–2018. €211,075 total.
Starting Investigator Grant, European Research Council, for “QUANTESS: Quantitative Analysis of Text for the Social Sciences” (ERC-2011-StG 283794-QUANTESS). €1,357,000 for 2011-2016.
Graduate Research Education Program in Quantitative Social Sciences, Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008-2011, with Paul Devereux (UCD), Philip Lane (TCD), and Paul Walsh (UCD). Provided €1,000,000 for three years of funding to establish an inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, pilot programme to train Ph.D. students in advanced quantitative methodologies.
Institute for International Integration Studies funded project: Globalisation and Party Competition. Trinity College, University of Dublin. Second-round funded collaborative project (with Gail McElroy, Michael Marsh, and Robert Thomson). Total: €100,000.
Enterprise Ireland Proof-of-Concept Grant (2004-2005). €78,431 for developing a method to extract information from texts using computerized content analysis. Duration: 12 months.
National Science Foundation (2004-2006), Collaborator. “Collaborative Research on Legislative Party Switching: Integrating Theoretical and Comparative Empirical Analyses.” Award No. 0339877, Co-Principal Investigators William B. Heller and Carol Mershon. Award amount $200,000, duration 24 months.
European Fifth Framework Grant (2002-2006). Received €97,695 for the Trinity College-based team on the project Domestic Structures of European Integration (DOSEI), headed by Thomas König.
Social Science Research Council Research Grant, Royal Irish Academy (1999). IR£20,000 grant for research on Eastern European electoral system origins.
Awards
The Statistical Software Award 2020 (with Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Paul Nulty, Adam Obeng, Stefan Müller, and Akitaka Matsuo). From the Society for Political Methodology, for quanteda. The Best Statistical Software Award recognizes individuals for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution.
Winner of the Gulbenkian Prize 2011 (awarded jointly with Nina Wiesehomeier). For “Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition,” Journal of Politics 71(4, October): 1435–1447. Best paper published by a young social scientist (in all fields except economics) from a Portuguese institution in an international journal in the past two years.
Winner of 1999 APSA Best Research Web Site Award (awarded as part of a group). Presented by the Computers and Multimedia Section at the 1999 annual meeting.
Winner of 1998 APSA Best Research Software Award. Presented by the Computers and Multimedia Section at the 1998 annual meeting, with Gary King.