Class Nine Checklist

Readings

• GRS Ch. 8
• Rodriguez, P. L., & Spirling, A. (2022). Word embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research. The Journal of Politics, 84(1), 101-115.
• Timoneda, J. C., & Vera, S. V. (2025). BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text. The Journal of Politics, 87(1), 347-364.

Homework

• Practice Set (Class 9)

Class Nine Learning Objectives:

• Words Become Numbers!
• Word and Sentence Embeddings
• word2vec, GloVE, and (S)BERT

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Table of contents

• Embeddings
• Class 9 Problem Set