Validating Automatic Text Digitization: Ensuring Quality of Text Analysis Tasks with Transfer Learning

• In Event: Advances in Text Analysis

Brief Overview

Political scientists increasingly use historical text for quantitative research. The paper uses new transfer learning tools to assess and improve digitization practices for these text projects, and applies it to a corpus of papal encyclicals.

Authors

• Blake Andrew Phillip Miller, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Mike Thompson-Brusstar, University of California-San Diego