Search Results - "ROBERTS, MARGARET E."

How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression by KING, GARY, PAN, JENNIFER, ROBERTS, MARGARET E.

“…We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever…”
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A Model of Text for Experimentation in the Social Sciences by Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Airoldi, Edoardo M.

“…Statistical models of text have become increasingly popular in statistics and computer science as a method of exploring large document collections. Social…”
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How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information by HOBBS, WILLIAM R., ROBERTS, MARGARET E.

“…Conventional wisdom assumes that increased censorship will strictly decrease access to information. We delineate circumstances when increases in censorship…”
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Computer-Assisted Keyword and Document Set Discovery from Unstructured Text by King, Gary, Lam, Patrick, Roberts, Margaret E.

“…The (unheralded) first step in many applications of automated text analysis involves selecting keywords to choose documents from a large text corpus for…”
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Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses by Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Tingley, Dustin, Lucas, Christopher, Leder-Luis, Jetson, Gadarian, Shana Kushner, Albertson, Bethany, Rand, David G.

“…Collection and especially analysis of open-ended survey responses are relatively rare in the discipline and when conducted are almost exclusively done through…”
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Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics by Lucas, Christopher, Nielsen, Richard A., Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Storer, Alex, Tingley, Dustin

“…Recent advances in research tools for the systematic analysis of textual data are enabling exciting new research throughout the social sciences. For…”
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Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond by Feder, Amir, Keith, Katherine A., Manzoor, Emaad, Pryzant, Reid, Sridhar, Dhanya, Wood-Doughty, Zach, Eisenstein, Jacob, Grimmer, Justin, Reichart, Roi, Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Veitch, Victor, Yang, Diyi

“…A fundamental goal of scientific research is to learn about causal relationships. However, despite its critical role in the life and social sciences, causality…”
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How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument by KING, GARY, PAN, JENNIFER, ROBERTS, MARGARET E.

“…The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2 million people to surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive…”
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stm : An R Package for Structural Topic Models by Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Tingley, Dustin

“…This paper demonstrates how to use the R package stm for structural topic modeling. The structural topic model allows researchers to flexibly estimate a topic…”
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Resilience to Online Censorship by Roberts, Margaret E

“…To what extent are Internet users resilient to online censorship? When does censorship influence consumption of information and when does it create backlash?…”
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Censorship’s Effect on Incidental Exposure to Information: Evidence From Wikipedia by Pan, Jennifer, Roberts, Margaret E.

“…The fast-growing body of research on internet censorship has examined the effects of censoring selective pieces of political information and the unintended…”
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Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation by King, Gary, Pan, Jennifer, Roberts, Margaret E.

“…Figuring out how many and which social media comments are censored by governments is difficult because those comments, by definition, cannot be read. King et…”
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Machine Learning for Social Science: An Agnostic Approach by Grimmer, Justin, Roberts, Margaret E, Stewart, Brandon M

“…Social scientists are now in an era of data abundance, and machine learning tools are increasingly used to extract meaning from data sets both massive and…”
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How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It by King, Gary, Roberts, Margaret E.

“…“Robust standard errors” are used in a vast array of scholarship to correct standard errors for model misspecification. However, when misspecification is bad…”
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From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media And Democracy by Tucker, Joshua A, Theocharis, Yannis, Roberts, Margaret E, Barberá, Pablo

“…How can one technology-social media-simultaneously give rise to hopes for liberation in authoritarian regimes, be used for repression by these same regimes,…”
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Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching by Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Nielsen, Richard A.

“…We identify situations in which conditioning on text can address confounding in observational studies. We argue that a matching approach is particularly…”
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Machine behaviour by Rahwan, Iyad, Cebrian, Manuel, Obradovich, Nick, Bongard, Josh, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Breazeal, Cynthia, Crandall, Jacob W., Christakis, Nicholas A., Couzin, Iain D., Jackson, Matthew O., Jennings, Nicholas R., Kamar, Ece, Kloumann, Isabel M., Larochelle, Hugo, Lazer, David, McElreath, Richard, Mislove, Alan, Parkes, David C., Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’, Roberts, Margaret E., Shariff, Azim, Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Wellman, Michael

“…Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of…”
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The impact of US-China tensions on US science: Evidence from the NIH investigations by Jia, Ruixue, Roberts, Margaret E, Wang, Ye, Yang, Eddie

“…Amid the discourse on foreign influence investigations in research, this study examines the impact of NIH-initiated investigations starting in 2018 on U.S…”
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What is Political Methodology? by Roberts, Margaret E.

“…By tackling a broader range of political science questions and adhering more closely to the definition of political methodology, political methodologists can…”
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Treatment of acromegaly improves quality of life, measured by AcroQol by Paisley, Angela N., Rowles, Susannah V., Roberts, Margaret E., Webb, Susan M., Badia, X., Prieto, L., Shalet, Stephen M., Trainer, Peter J.

“…Summary Background   AcroQol is a disease‐generated questionnaire, developed to assess quality of life (QOL) in patients with acromegaly. We have previously…”
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