2 papers
cs.CL2025
PolInterviews -- A Dataset of German Politician Public Broadcast Interviews
Lukas Birkenmaier, Laureen Sieber, Felix Bergstein
This paper presents a novel dataset of public broadcast interviews featuring high-ranking German politicians. The interviews were sourced from YouTube, transcribed, processed for s…
cs.CL2024
From Measurement Instruments to Data: Leveraging Theory-Driven Synthetic Training Data for Classifying Social Constructs
Lukas Birkenmaier, Matthias Roth, Indira Sen
Computational text classification is a challenging task, especially for multi-dimensional social constructs. Recently, there has been increasing discussion that synthetic training…