Class Six Checklist

Readings

• GSR Ch. 6-7, 16
• Ornstein, J. T., Blasingame, E. N., \& Truscott, J. S. (2025). How to train your stochastic parrot: Large language models for political texts. Political Science Research and Methods, 13(2), 264-281. (Sections 3.1-3.2)
• Laver, M., Benoit, K., & Garry, J. (2003). Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data. American Political Science Review, 97(2), 311-331.
• Black, R. C., Treul, S. A., Johnson, T. R., & Goldman, J. (2011). Emotions, oral arguments, and Supreme Court decision making. The Journal of Politics, 73(2), 572-581.
• Rice, D. R., & Zorn, C. (2021). Corpus-based dictionaries for sentiment analysis of specialized vocabularies. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(1), 20-35.

Homework

• Practice Set (Class 6)

Class Six Learning Objectives:

• Dictionaries and Similarity
• Multinomial Language Model
• Vector Space Model

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Table of contents

• Dictionaries
• Multinomial Language Model
• Vector Space Model
• Class 6 Problem Set