| gather_related_terms {poldis} | R Documentation |
Gather terms related to subjects
Description
Gather terms related to subjects
Usage
gather_related_terms(.data, dictionary)
Arguments
.data |
A data frame, priorities data frame coded using 'select_priorities()', or text vector. For data frames, function will search for "text" variable. For priorities data frame function will search for "priorities" variable. |
dictionary |
The dictionary of 20 major political topics from the Comparative Agendas Project (Jones et al., 2023) is used by default. Users can also declare a custom dictionary as a vector or a list. If users declare a vector, each element is treated as a independent topic. If users declare a list of subjects and related terms, function understands names as topic and words as terms. |
Details
This function relies on keyword assisted topic models implemented in the '{keyATM}' package to find related words based on the topics provided and texts in which they appear.
Value
A list of related terms to each of the topics declared in dictionary.
References
Eshima S, Imai K, and Sasaki T. 2024. “Keyword-Assisted Topic Models.” _American Journal of Political Science_, 68(2): 730-750. doi:10.1111/ajps.12779