Word Embeddings: Properties, Performance and Prospects for Political Science Research

• In Event: Machine Learning: Text and Audio

Brief Overview

Word embeddings are extremely popular, but do they work for political science? Can we use pre-trained, or must we do local fitting? We provide benchmarks for performance and inference on a large number of corpora, including non-English texts.

Authors

• Arthur Spirling, New York University

• Pedro Rodríguez, Vanderbilt University