Background Readings
Short overviews of the ideas behind each module, with links to the papers and documentation they draw on.
These readings give background for the methods we use in class. Each one is a short overview followed by references. You do not need to read every reference, but the overview should help you see where our tools fit in a longer research tradition.
Codebooks and decision models
Researchers have coded text against a codebook by hand for most of a century. This reading traces that practice through statistical classifiers and language models to decision models such as Jev, and shows how Module 3 follows the same workflow.
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