Dear Amaç,<div><br></div><div>as well as tools you can trust, you need data you can trust. Techniques I describe in <a href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/Kilgarriff_TSD2012.pdf?format=raw" title="Attachment 'Kilgarriff_TSD2012.pdf' in AK/Papers" style="border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-width:1px;line-height:16.796875px;color:rgb(51,113,186);font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;text-decoration:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(187,187,187)" target="_blank">Getting to know your corpus</a> are designed to help researchers find the characteristics, quirks and biases of their dataset</div>
<div><br></div><div>(video version <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XvWh6YqgkU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XvWh6YqgkU</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2013 03:44, Amac Herdagdelen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amac@herdagdelen.com" target="_blank">amac@herdagdelen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Corpora Members,</div><div><br></div><div>A colleague of mine who is currently doing his PhD in political science asked me this interesting question:</div>
<div><br></div><div>"One of the hallmarks of Political Science (for better or for worse) is importing techniques from other disciplines and figuring out how to make them work in the Political context. As far as text processing the latest and greatest that we have in our literature is LDA. Is there anything new/fun that jumps to mind that I should read up on? LDA papers have won our "Best Methodological Innovation" awards 3 years running."<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>What are your thoughts? What new things do we have/know to offer other fields?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Amaç</div>
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