Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher, Max Boiten
{"title":"JST and rJST: joint estimation of sentiment and topics in textual data using a semi-supervised approach","authors":"Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher, Max Boiten","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2383453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2383453","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates the performance of the Joint Sentiment Topic model (JST) and the reversed Joint Sentiment Topic model (rJST) in measuring sentiment in political speeches, comparing them aga...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miriam Brinberg, Denise Haunani Solomon, Graham D. Bodie, Susanne M. Jones, Nilam Ram
{"title":"Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation","authors":"Miriam Brinberg, Denise Haunani Solomon, Graham D. Bodie, Susanne M. Jones, Nilam Ram","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2413973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2413973","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates how to implement state space grid analysis for analyzing the back-and-forth multi-turn dynamics that manifest in dyadic conversations. In doing so, we contribute to a dynamic...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142452125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bootstrapping public entities. Domain-specific NER for public speakers","authors":"Sami Nenno","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2388098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2388098","url":null,"abstract":"Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a supervised machine learning task that finds various applications in automated content analysis, as the identification of entities is vital for understanding publ...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142118029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moritz Laurer, Wouter van Atteveldt, Andreu Casas, Kasper Welbers
{"title":"On Measurement Validity and Language Models: Increasing Validity and Decreasing Bias with Instructions","authors":"Moritz Laurer, Wouter van Atteveldt, Andreu Casas, Kasper Welbers","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2378690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2378690","url":null,"abstract":"Language models like BERT or GPT are becoming increasingly popular measurement tools, but are the measurements they produce valid? Literature suggests that there is still a relevant gap between the...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141880135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories","authors":"Marieke van Hoof, Damian Trilling, Corine Meppelink, Judith Möller, Felicia Loecherbach","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2363776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2363776","url":null,"abstract":"Search engines play a crucial role in today’s information environment. Yet, political and news-related (PNR) search engine use remains understudied, mainly due to the lack of suitable measurement m...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141425598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatically Finding Actors in Texts: A Performance Review of Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Tools","authors":"Paul Balluff, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Annie Waldherr","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2324789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2324789","url":null,"abstract":"Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a crucial task in natural language processing and has a wide range of applications in communication science. However, there is a lack of systematic evaluations of ...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140165084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lijiang Shen, Ye Sun, Pascal Jürgens, Baohua Zhou, Marko Bachl
{"title":"Taking communication science and research methodology seriously","authors":"Lijiang Shen, Ye Sun, Pascal Jürgens, Baohua Zhou, Marko Bachl","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2308369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2308369","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Communication Methods and Measures (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tenko Raykov, George A. Marcoulides, Natalja Menold
{"title":"Coefficient alpha and reliability of communication science measurement scales: A note on Hayes and Coutts","authors":"Tenko Raykov, George A. Marcoulides, Natalja Menold","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2302125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2302125","url":null,"abstract":"This note intends to complement the recent discussion in Hayes and Coutts (2020) by focusing on (i) the loading equality condition for the population identity of coefficient alpha and reliability o...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Petro Tolochko, Paul Balluff, Jana Bernhard, Sebastian Galyga, Noëlle S. Lebernegg, Hajo G. Boomgaarden
{"title":"What’s in a name? The effect of named entities on topic modelling interpretability","authors":"Petro Tolochko, Paul Balluff, Jana Bernhard, Sebastian Galyga, Noëlle S. Lebernegg, Hajo G. Boomgaarden","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2024.2302120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2302120","url":null,"abstract":"Topic Modelling has established itself as one of the major text-as-data methodologies within the social sciences in general, and in communications science, in particular. The core strength of TM ap...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139676971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Misclassification in Automated Content Analysis Causes Bias in Regression. Can We Fix It? Yes We Can!","authors":"Nathan TeBlunthuis, Valerie Hase, Chung-Hong Chan","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2023.2293713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2293713","url":null,"abstract":"Automated classifiers (ACs), often built via supervised machine learning (SML), can categorize large, statistically powerful samples of data ranging from text to images and video. They have become ...","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139489778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}