dissertation

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, …

Framing Democracy: Characterizing China's Negative Legitimation Propaganda using Word Embeddings

There is a large and growing literature on how authoritarian regimes use pro-government propaganda to enhance their survival. However, there has been little research on how regimes use propaganda to manipulate their citizen's beliefs about other …