Improving the selection of news reports for event coding using ensemble classification

Manual coding of political events from news reports is extremely expensive and time-consuming, whereas completely automatic coding has limitations when it comes to the precision and granularity of the data collected. In this paper, we introduce an alternative strategy by establishing a semi-automati...

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Main Authors: Mihai Croicu, Nils B Weidmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-11-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015615596