computational social science

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)

Natural Language Processing has seen impressive gains in recent years. This research includes the demonstration by NLP models to have turned into useful technologies with improved capabilities, measured in terms of how well they match human behavior …

Beyond Digital 'Echo Chambers': The Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion

Increasingly taking place in online spaces, modern political conversations are typically perceived to be unproductively affirming---siloed in so called 'echo chambers' of exclusively like-minded discussants. Yet, to date we lack sufficient means to …

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Mixed methods for analyzing political parties’ promises to voters during election campaigns