Editing Text as Data (Spring 2026) (section)

=== Monday April 20: Word Embeddings — Understanding ===
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'''Resources'''
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1883473/assignments/11284657 Daily Problem Set #6]

'''Required Readings:'''
* Grimmer, Stewart, and Roberts: Ch. 8 (pp. 78–89) <!-- zotero:ignore -->
* Rodriguez, Pedro L., and Arthur Spirling. 2022. "Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn't, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research." ''The Journal of Politics'' 84 (1): 101–15. https://doi.org/10.1086/715162. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1086/715162}} <!-- zotero:BZ79AZMD -->
* Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans. 2019. "The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings." ''American Sociological Review'' 84 (5): 905–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122419877135. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122419877135}} <!-- zotero:JJP72AS7 -->
* Nelson, Laura K. 2021. "Leveraging the Alignment between Machine Learning and Intersectionality: Using Word Embeddings to Measure Intersectional Experiences of the Nineteenth Century U.S. South." ''Poetics'' 88 (October): 101539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101539. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101539}} <!-- zotero:LSMSBEAG -->
* Caliskan, Aylin, Joanna J. Bryson, and Arvind Narayanan. 2017. "Semantics Derived Automatically from Language Corpora Contain Human-like Biases." ''Science'' 356 (6334): 183–86. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4230. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4230}} <!-- zotero:ZSFHJJPV -->

'''Optional Readings:'''
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* Stoltz, Dustin S., and Marshall A. Taylor. 2021. "Cultural Cartography with Word Embeddings." ''Poetics'' 88 (October): 101567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101567. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101567}} <!-- zotero:JBMYR7C4 -->
* Hamilton, William L., Jure Leskovec, and Dan Jurafsky. 2016. "Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change." ''Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)'', 1489–1501. https://aclanthology.org/P16-1141.pdf. {{avail-free|https://aclanthology.org/P16-1141.pdf}} <!-- zotero:TLXHK3WW -->
* Best, Rachel Kahn, and Alina Arseniev-Koehler. 2023. "The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline." ''American Sociological Review'' 88 (5): 938–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231197436. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231197436}} <!-- zotero:9723RFL4 -->
* Waller, Isaac, and Ashton Anderson. 2021. "Quantifying Social Organization and Political Polarization in Online Platforms." ''Nature'' 600 (7888): 264–68. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04167-x. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04167-x}} <!-- zotero:FJ534MRX -->