Over the past decade, sociologists have become increasingly interested in the formal study
of semantic relations within text. Most contemporary studies focus either on mapping …

Text, the written representation of human thought and communication in natural language,
has been a major source of data for social science research since its early beginnings …

Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives—the stories in
fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper …

Goldenstein and Poschmann (hereafter GP, this volume, pp. 83–131) offer a novel
approach, or combination of approaches, for tracking multiple layers of “meaning” in a …

There is growing interest across the social sciences in the systematic analysis of “text.” 1
Little wonder: Most of the recoverable data about human thought and human behavior is text …

On July 9–10, 2012, Professor Martin Bauer organized a third conference on text mining at
the London School of Economics. Invited participants came from computer science and …

Analysis of political communication is an important aspect of political research. Thematic
content analysis has yielded considerable success both with manual and automatic coding …

Since the beginning of this millennium, data in the form of human-generated text in a
machine-readable format has become increasingly available to social scientists, presenting …

Social scientists have recently started discussing the utilization of text-mining tools as being
fruitful for scaling inductively grounded close reading. We aim to progress in this direction …

In literary study, intertextuality refers to the reuse of text, where new meaning or novel
stylistic effects have been generated. Most typically in the digital humanities, algorithms for …