Interested in theory-driven topic modeling? Check out our paper on using seeded LDA to analyze how the framing of immigration has evolved over 75 years.
Miriam Hurtado Bodell
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The semi-supervised seeded (or constrained) topic model allows infusion of sociological knowledge when discovering meaning structures. Topics then are readily interpretable.
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Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-su...