Measuring Ideological Nuance: Neural Network Models of Congressional Discourse

• In Event: Legislative Discourse and Communications

Brief Overview

We introduce a replicable, interdisciplinary NLP framework—custom transformers, classifiers, and multidimensional word embeddings visualized in 3D—to estimate nuanced ideological positions of the 118th US Congress.

Authors

• Ryan D Williamson, University of Wyoming

• Jordan Windham, University of Wyoming