Replication Data for: Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'This replication archive contains all data and code to replicate the results in 'Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech' by Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Alexander Herzog.Article abstract: Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in the same style. We demonstrate the first viable approach for estimating legislator-specific scores from the entire speech corpus of a legislature, while also producing extensive information about the evolution of speech polarization and politically loaded language. In the Irish Dail, we show that the dominant dimension of speech variation is government-opposition, with ministers more extreme on this dimension than backbenchers, and a second dimens' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["ideal point estimation","political speech","text analysis"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'This replication archive contains all data and code to replicate the results in 'Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech' by Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Alexander Herzog.Article abstract: Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in the same style. We demonstrate the first viable approach for estimating legislator-specific scores from the entire speech corpus of a legislature, while also producing extensive information about the evolution of speech polarization and politically loaded language. In the Irish Dail, we show that the dominant dimension of speech variation is government-opposition, with ministers more extreme on this dimension than backbenchers, and a second dimens' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
This replication archive contains all data and code to replicate the results in 'Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech' by Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Alexander Herzog.Article abstract: Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in the same style. We demonstrate the first viable approach for estimating legislator-specific scores from the entire speech corpus of a legislature, while also producing extensive information about the evolution of speech polarization and politically loaded language. In the Irish Dail, we show that the dominant dimension of speech variation is government-opposition, with ministers more extreme on this dimension than backbenchers, and a second dimens
ideal point estimation; political speech; text analysis