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A selection of published articles, working papers and theses are listed here. Please contact us if you are interested in reading any of our working papers.
- Axelsson, Sofia & Stefan Dahlberg. (2024). Measuring Happiness and Life Satisfaction amongst Swedish Citizens: an Inquiry into Semantic Equivalence in Comparative Survey Research. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(113): 1–21
- Dahlberg, Stefan & Ulf Mörkenstam. (2024). Exploring popular conceptions of democracy through media discourse: analysing dimensions of democracy from online media data in 93 countries using a distributional semantic model. Democratization, 31(8): 1766–1797
- Holmberg, Sören & Sofia Axelsson. (2024). How People in Different Countries Talk About Climate and Energy Online. Short Report. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg
- Cuba Gyllensten, Amaru. (2023). Quantifying Meaning. Doctoral Thesis. Stockholm: KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Dahlberg, Stefan & Ulf Mörkenstam. (2023). The ‘DemocracyTree’: Analysing Dimensions of Democracy from Online Data in 93 Countries Using a Distributional Semantic Model. Working Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Toulouse 25-27 April
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Sofia Axelsson, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten, Magnus Sahlgren, Ariel Ekgren, Sören Holmberg & Jonas Andersson Schwarz. (2023). A Distributional Semantic Online Lexicon for Linguistic Explorations of Societies. Social Science Computer Review, 41(2): 308-329
- Dahlberg Stefan & Ulf Mörkenstam. (2022). The ‘Democracy Tree’: Analysing the Meaning of Democracy Using a Distributional Semantic Model for Collecting Co-Occurrence Information from Online Data in 114 Countries. Working paper presented at the International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Program (CSDI) in Paris, 4-5 April 2022
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Huang, Ling-yi, Dorothée Behr, Stefan Dahlberg, Anna V. Andreenkova & Luise Dürlich. (2022). Machine Translations vs Post-Edited Translations of Open-Ended Democracy Assessments in Russia. Working paper presented at the International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Program (CSDI) in Paris, 4-5 April 2022
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Sofia Axelsson & Sören Holmberg. (2020). Democracy in Context: Using a Distributional Semantic Model to Study the Usage of Democracy Across Languages and Countries. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 14(4): 425-459
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Sofia Axelsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten & Ariel Ekgren. (2020). The LES Distributional Semantic Lexicon, Working paper. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg
- Holmberg, Sören. (2020). How People Around the World Assess Democracy Communicating Online. QoG Working Paper Series 2020:5. Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute. ISSN 1653-8919
- Gyllensten, Amaru Cuba & Magnus Sahlgren. (2018). Measuring Issue Ownership Using Word Embeddings. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.00127
- Abdalla, Mohamed. (2018). Lowering the Cost of Improved Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis. Master's Thesis in Computer Science. Toronto: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- Gyllensten, Amaru Cuba & Magnus Sahlgren. (2018). Distributional Term Set Expansion. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05014
- Axelsson, Sofia, Sören Holmberg & Stefan Dahlberg. (2018). What People Talk About When They Talk About Corruption: Using A Distributional Semantic Lexicon to Collect Text from Online Data across the World. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Barcelona, 29-31 January 2018
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Magnus Sahlgren & Jonas Linde. (2018). Lost in Translation - How Differences in Word Intensity Affect Citizens' Satisfaction with the Workings of Democracy across Countries. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Barcelona, 29-31 January 2018
- Abdalla, Mohamed & Graeme Hirst. (2017). Cross-lingual sentiment analysis without (good) translation. Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 1: 506–515
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Sofia Axelsson & Sören Holmberg. (2017). The Meaning of Democracy. Using Distributional Semantics to Account for Meaning Differences. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Tylebäck, 21-22 August 2017 and at the Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Oslo, 6-9 September 2017
- Padilla López, Rebeca. (2017). Word Frequency as a Predictor of Word Intensity. Master's Thesis in Language Technology. Uppsala: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Uppsala
- Axelsson, Sofia & Stefan Dahlberg. (2017). Measuring happiness and life satisfaction amongst Swedish citizens: An inquiry into semantic equivalence in comparative research. Working paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in New Orleans, 18-21 May 2017
- Axelsson, Sofia, Stefan Dahlberg & Sören Holmberg. (2017). Corruption Talk: Exploring the Use of the Word Corruption in Large Text Data Across Different Languages and Online Media. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Budapest, 27-28 January 2017
- Sahlgren, Magnus & Alessandro Lenci. (2016). The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models. Paper presented at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) in Austin, 1-5 November 2016
- Dahlberg, Stefan, Sören Holmberg, Sofia Axelsson, Magnus Sahlgren & Amaru Cuba Gyllensten. (2016). The Meaning of Democracy. Using Distributional Semantics to Account for Meaning Differences. Working paper presented at the PolText International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text in Dubrovnik, 14-16 July 2016
- Axelsson, Sofia, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Magnus Sahlgren & Amaru Cuba Gyllensten. (2016). Expressing Happiness in Different Languages. Working paper presented at the EUENGAGE Political Text Analysis Workshop in Amsterdam, 21-22 June 2016
- Axelsson, Sofia, Stefan Dahlberg & Johan Martinsson. (2016). Measuring Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Democracy Amongst Swedish Citizens. An Inquiry into Semantic Equivalence in Comparative Survey Research. Working paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) in Chicago, 7-10 April 2016
- Axelsson, Sofia, Stefan Dahlberg & Sören Holmberg. (2016). Expressing Happiness in Different Languages. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Nice, 26-28 January 2016
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Dahlberg, Stefan, Sören Holmberg, Annika Lindberg & Magnus Sahlgren. (2015). The Meaning of Democracy. Working paper presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Falkenberg, 17-19 August 2015
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