4 papers
Is Textual Similarity Invariant under Machine Translation? Evidence Based on the Political Manifesto Corpus
Daria Boratyn, Damian Brzyski, Albert Leśniak +5
We investigate the extent to which cosine similarity between paragraph embeddings is invariant under machine translation, using the Manifesto Corpus of over 2,800 political party p…
Allocation Proportionality of OWA--Based Committee Scoring Rules
Daria Boratyn, Dariusz Stolicki
While proportionality is frequently named as a desirable property of voting rules, its interpretation in multiwinner voting differs significantly from that in apportionment. We aim…
Effect of Electoral Seat Bias on Political Polarization: A Computational Perspective
Daria Boratyn, Dariusz Stolicki
Research on the causes of political polarization points towards multiple drivers of the problem, from social and psychological to economic and technological. However, political ins…
A Formal Model of the Relationship between the Number of Parties and the District Magnitude
Daria Boratyn, Jarosław Flis, Wojciech Słomczyński +1
On the basis of a formula for calculating seat shares and natural thresholds in multidistrict elections under the Jefferson-D'Hondt system and a probabilistic model of electoral be…