Tag: natural language processing

Women vs. Men quoted in media news

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New research from Simon Fraser University shows that women’s voices continue to be underrepresented in the media, despite having prominent female leaders across Canada and internationally. Researchers in SFU’s Discourse Processing Lab found that men outnumber women quoted in Canadian news media about three to one. The findings from the team’s Gender Gap Tracker study Read more about Women vs. Men quoted in media news[…]

What automatic text analysis algorithms tell us about political speeches

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Research by Kansas State University shows how politicians from both major parties have changed their political speech from previous centuries. A computer science research team at K-State analyzed nearly 2 million congressional speeches made by Republican and Democrat legislators from 1873 to 2010. Their computer analysis shows that political speeches are in fact very different Read more about What automatic text analysis algorithms tell us about political speeches[…]