The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

This post is from one of the historians working the Dilipad project, Luke Blaxill: The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious research questions that our team of historians, social and political scientists, and...

Text to ideology or text to party status?

This is a post by team member Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto: Is it possible to tell what a politician’s ideology is or what party they are a member of just by looking at a list of the words that they and don’t use? You might expect that even...

From Text to Political Positions

This post is from project team member Maarten Marx: The book From Text to Political Positions. Text analysis across disciplines edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof recently appeared. It contains chapters by DiLiPaD researchers Graeme Hirst and...