Automated text analysis has become a widely used tool in political science. In this research, we use a BERT model trained on German party manifestos to identify the individual parties' contribution to the coalition agreement of 2021.
@article{arxiv.2212.14648,
title = {Distant Reading of the German Coalition Deal: Recognizing Policy Positions with BERT-based Text Classification},
author = {Michael Zylla and Thomas Haider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14648},
year = {2023}
}
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International Digital Humanities Conference 2022, Tokyo