After seeing mass media’s strong response to the extremists’ attack against Charlie Hebdo, I started thinking what can I do for this increasingly important topic? One simple work is making a dictionary containing keywords related to terrorism, so the Terrorism Dictionary 2014 is created. This dictionary is made from newswires submitted by the Associated Press […]
Left-right policy position dictionary
The Latent Semantic Scaling (LSS) not only works well with positive-negative sentiment but with left-right position on economic policy. The seed words for this dimension are {deficit, austerity, unstable, recession, inflation, currency, workforce} for the light and {poor, poverty, free, benefits, prices, money, workers} for the left. Left-right policy position dictionary was created from UK […]
Immigration dictionary
This is probably the final version of my immigration dictionary. This text analysis dictionary was created using technique called the Latent Semantic Scaling, which is based on the Latent Semantic Analysis, from British newspaper corpus. The result of the automated content analysis by this dictionary is strongly corresponds to manual coding by Amazon’s Mechanical Turks […]