More than Unigrams Can Say: Detecting Meaningful Multi-word Expressions from Political Texts
Seminar
Almost universal among existing approaches to text mining is the adoption of the bag of words approach, counting each word as a feature without regard to grammar or order. This approach remains extremely useful despite being an obviously inaccurate model of how observed words are generated in…
The Unsentimental Nation? Early Commemoration of the Australian Commonwealth
Seminar
Scholars have disagreed about the degree of sentiment that propelled the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Was Federation a cynical deal designed to further the economic interests of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the working classes, women, Indigneous people and…
The Unsentimental Nation? Early Commemoration of the Australian Commonwealth
Seminar
Scholars have disagreed about the degree of sentiment that propelled the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Was Federation a cynical deal designed to further the economic interests of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the working classes, women, Indigneous people and…
POP workshop 2019
Seminar
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Fernando Martinez Coma - Transaction Costs in Electoral Coordination: How Turnout Shapes Party System Change
Seminar
This presentation examines the forces shaping party system change. We argue that the transaction costs in electoral coordination depend on the turnout level in the previous election. The greater the number of peripheral voters entering the electorate, the less likely a change in the party system in…
Weaponizing ‘fake news’ in Australian politics
Seminar
This seminar explores two conundrums for quality Australian political discourse linked to the phenomenon of ‘fake news’. First, it will explore Australian contagion of the discourse of ‘fake news’ since Donald Trump’s candidacy to become United States’ President that is weaponized to attack and…
Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Pathways to Run for Office in Australia: 1987-2016
Seminar
The under-representation of women in Australian politics has led both major political parties to adopt different strategies to increase the number of women candidates. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) adopted successive internal party quotas aiming at increasing the percentage of women candidates.…