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

It is well understood that autocrats have used propaganda to portray the incumbent regime in a positive light, but do they use it to diminish the appeal of alternative systems of government? To address this question, I employ word embeddings to …

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, …