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Wordscores/JFreq with Long Manifestos
Today I run into an unexpected error when using Wordscores in R. I used JFreq 0.5.4 to calculate the word frequencies from 35 parties with rather long party manifestos. This resulted in a 3.4M CSV file...
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Wordscores in R
A while ago I wrote a step by step guide for using Wordscores in R. I did this as part of the FP7 project SOM, but ended up doing the analyses myself. I have recently posted some code on running...
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Obtaining Party Positions from Manifestos
My paper on obtaining party positions from manifestos has just been published. It compares different methods to obtain party positions on immigration, mostly from party manifestos. Most approaches...
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The role of source language in Wordscores etc.
My paper on the role of source language in the automatic coding of political texts (Wordscores, dictionary coding) is now available online. I make use of Swiss party manifestos to examine the impact of...
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Should We Use Stop Words?
When using automatic content analysis like Wordscores or Wordfish, stop words may be used. This is a contentious issue, with recommendations ranging from definitely use stop words to those who argue...
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R package not available on R-Forge?
Apparently it is still the case that some R packages on R-Forge are unavailable for download. For instance, the package Austin to calculate Wordscores and Wordfish has no download candidate for...
View ArticleWordscores and JFreq – an update
An old post of mine on using JFreq and Wordscores in R still gets frequent hits. For some documents, the current version of JFreq doesn’t work as well as the old one (which you can find here [I’m just...
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