dissertation

Framing Democracy: Deciphering China's Anti-Democratic Propaganda using Word Embeddings

Autocrats have long used propaganda to maintain their grip on power, but what happens when they are forced to confront the appeal of alternative regimes? I employ word embeddings to measure whether there is a significant difference in how Chinese …

Embedded Lexica: Extracting Topical Dictionaries from Unlabeled Corpora using Word Embeddings

Researchers frequently need to extract information, such as events or target topics, from large corpora. One common solution involves applying semantically-related keywords to identify tweets, news articles, or other documents of interest. However, …