Even though fine-tuned neural language models have been pivotal in enabling" deep"
automatic text analysis, optimizing text representations for specific applications remains a …

Solidarity is a crucial concept to understand social relations in societies. In this study, we
investigate the frequency of (anti-) solidarity towards women and migrants in German …

We measure support with women and migrants in German political debates over the last 155
years. To do so, we (1) provide a gold standard of 1205 text snippets in context, annotated …

Newspaper reports provide a rich source of information on the unfolding of public debates,
which can serve as basis for inquiry in political science. Such debates are often triggered by …

Newspaper reports provide a rich source of information on the unfolding of public debate on
specific policy fields that can serve as basis for inquiry in political science. Such debates are …

In this paper, we introduce the task of political coalition signal prediction from text, that is, the
task of recognizing from the news coverage leading up to an election the (un) willingness of …

Positional analyses in political science target the identification of (dis) similarities between
parties based on their stance on a given policy or political demand (claim)–which are …

Computational Social Science (CSS) is an emerging research area at the intersection of
social science and computer science, where problems of societal relevance can be …