Ground Truth - The Uses and Abuses of Human Annotation in Text Analysis - Professor Kenneth Benoit

Ground Truth - The Uses and Abuses of Human Annotation in Text Analysis - Professor Kenneth Benoit

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the curious notion of "ground truth"

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the curious notion of "ground truth"

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Ground Truth - The Uses and Abuses of Human Annotation in Text Analysis - Professor Kenneth Benoit

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 the curious notion of "ground truth"
  3. 3 the curious notion of ground truth
  4. 4 sources of ground truth
  5. 5 examples in text analysis
  6. 6 sometimes it's far from obvious
  7. 7 how do we validate latent positions?
  8. 8 a recoding experiment
  9. 9 intercoder agreement
  10. 10 misclassification
  11. 11 more recent investigations
  12. 12 text annotation using the crowd
  13. 13 example: labelling immigration sentences
  14. 14 example: economic and social policy
  15. 15 start with expert coding, for benchmark
  16. 16 deployment on Crowdflower
  17. 17 inter-coder agreement
  18. 18 comparing experts to crowd-coders
  19. 19 correlation of aggregate measures
  20. 20 experts were just a less variable crowd
  21. 21 example: immigration policy
  22. 22 test for immigration policy
  23. 23 quality control: very important
  24. 24 conclusions

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