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Articles tagged with #lexical-analysis
Abstract Short texts generated by individuals in online environments can provide social and behavioral scientists with rich insights into these individuals’ internal states. Trained manual coders can reliably interpret expressions of such internal st...
Abstract: The emergence of big data and computational tools has introduced new possibilities for using large-scale textual sources in sociological research. Recent work in sociology of culture, science, and economic sociology has shown how computatio...
"all models of language are wrong but some are useful" "Once the research question is defined and the researcher is performing measurement, we can assess how accurate a method is at recovering the specific concept of interest to the researcher. Becau...
Abstract: In recent years, the extraction of opinions and information from user-generated text has attracted a lot of interest, largely due to the unprecedented volume of content in Social Media. However, social researchers face some issues in adopti...
There are still many sociologists who are skeptical of the findings of big data-based analysis of social-data, questioning the potential of this knowledge production and its contribution to the scientific discourse of sociology.The chapter shows that...
Prediction and Classification Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences Abstract: Text contains a wealth of information about a wide variety of sociocultural constructs. Automated prediction methods can infer these q...
