4 papers
Mapping Political-Elite Networks in Europe with a Multilingual Joint Entity-Relation Extraction Pipeline
Kirill Solovev, Jana Lasser
Whether political elites organise into rent-seeking coalitions that capture public resources or civic networks that sustain governance is a central question in comparative politics…
Infini-News: Efficiently Queryable Access to 1.3 Billion Processed Common Crawl News Articles
Ruggero Marino Lazzaroni, Jana Lasser, Kirill Solovev
Large-scale news corpora support a wide range of research in Computational Social Science and NLP, yet access remains constrained: commercial archives impose prohibitive costs and…
Characterizing the Dynamics of Conspiracy Related German Telegram Conversations during COVID-19
Elisabeth Höldrich, Mathias Angermaier, Jana Lasser +1
Conspiracy theories have long drawn public attention, but their explosive growth on platforms like Telegram during the COVID-19 pandemic raises pressing questions about their impac…
Computational analysis of US Congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition
Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Almog Simchon, Fabio Carrella +3
Pursuit of honest and truthful decision-making is crucial for governance and accountability in democracies. However, people sometimes take different perspectives of what it means t…