Building the Bridge

Autor(en)

Fabienne Lind, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Olga Eisele, Tobias Heidenreich, Sebastian Galyga, Hajo Boomgaarden

Abstrakt

In communication research, topic modeling is primarily used for discovering systematic patterns in monolingual text corpora. To advance the usage, we provide an overview of recently presented strategies to extract topics from multilingual text collections for the purpose of comparative research. Moreover, we discuss, demonstrate, and facilitate the usability of the "Polylingual Topic Model" (PLTM) for such analyses. The appeal of this model is that it derives lists of related clustered words in different languages with little reliance on translation or multilingual dictionaries and without the need for manual post-hoc matching of topics. PLTM bridges the gap between languages by making use of document connections in training documents. As these training documents are the crucial resource for the model, we compare model evaluation metrics for different strategies to build training documents. By discussing the advantages and limitations of the different strategies in respect to different scenarios, our study contributes to the methodological discussion on automated content analysis of multilingual text corpora.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Journal

Communication Methods & Measures

Band

16

Seiten

96-114

Anzahl der Seiten

19

ISSN

1931-2458

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2021.1965973

Publikationsdatum

09-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Communication

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