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ReviewPeerJ. Computer science2024

Word embedding for social sciences: an interdisciplinary survey.

Akira Matsui, Emilio Ferrara

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Review in PeerJ. Computer science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Akira MatsuiCollege of Business Administration, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Emilio FerraraThomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1942-2831

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning models learn low-dimensional representations from complex high-dimensional data. Not only computer science but also social science has benefited from the advancement of these powerful tools. Within such tools, word embedding is one of the most popular methods in the literature. However, we have no particular documentation of this emerging trend because this trend overlaps different social science fields. To well compile this fragmented knowledge, we survey recent studies that apply word embedding models to human behavior mining. Our taxonomy built on the surveyed article provides a concise but comprehensive overview of this emerging trend of intersection between computer science and social science and guides scholars who are going to navigate the use of word embedding algorithms in their voyage of social science research.

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Bias in machine learningComputational social scienceword2vecWord embedding

Identifiers

PMID39896392
PMCPMC11784867

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