quanteda.textmodels

MaRDI QIDQ63321CRANFDO

Authors Kenneth Benoit, Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Patrick Perry, Benjamin Lauderdale, Johannes B. Gruber, William Lowe

Last update 10 February 2025

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 0.9.6, PACKAGES.rds, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5-1, 0.9.5, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.10

Description

Scaling models and classifiers for sparse matrix objects representing textual data in the form of a document-feature matrix. Includes original implementations of 'Laver', 'Benoit', and Garry's (2003) <doi:10.1017/S0003055403000698>, 'Wordscores' model, the Perry and 'Benoit' (2017) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1710.08963> class affinity scaling model, and the 'Slapin' and 'Proksch' (2008) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00338.x> 'wordfish' model, as well as methods for correspondence analysis, latent semantic analysis, and fast Naive Bayes and linear 'SVMs' specially designed for sparse textual data.

Cites work

• A Scaling Model for Estimating Time-Series Party Positions from Texts
• Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data

Cited in

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• minorparties

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