@inproceedings{glavas-etal-2017-unsupervised,
    title = "Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Scaling of Political Texts",
    author = "Glava{\v{s}}, Goran  and
      Nanni, Federico  and
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo",
    editor = "Lapata, Mirella  and
      Blunsom, Phil  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/E17-2109/",
    pages = "688--693",
    abstract = "Political text scaling aims to linearly order parties and politicians across political dimensions (e.g., left-to-right ideology) based on textual content (e.g., politician speeches or party manifestos). Existing models scale texts based on relative word usage and cannot be used for cross-lingual analyses. Additionally, there is little quantitative evidence that the output of these models correlates with common political dimensions like left-to-right orientation. Experimental results show that the semantically-informed scaling models better predict the party positions than the existing word-based models in two different political dimensions. Furthermore, the proposed models exhibit no drop in performance in the cross-lingual compared to monolingual setting."
}