Computational Analysis of Political Texts: Bridging Research Efforts Across Communities (P19-4)
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| Challenge: | Political scientists have developed and adopted natural language processing (NLP) methods to exploit text as an additional source of data in their analyses. |
| Approach: | This tutorial aims to provide a gentle introduction to methods and tasks related to computational analysis of political texts from both communities. |
| Outcome: | The main goal of this tutorial is to bring the two research communities closer to each other and contribute to faster and more significant developments in this interdisciplinary area. |
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