Topic modeling has become an effective tool for communication scholars to explore large
amounts of texts. However, empirical studies applying topic modeling often face the critical …

A number of countries have adopted national policies and directives to balance the
advantages and disadvantages of innovative technologies. The purpose of this paper is to …

What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel
technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper …

Topic model evaluation, like evaluation of other unsupervised methods, can be contentious.
However, the field has coalesced around automated estimates of topic coherence, which …

Risk assessment algorithms are being adopted by public sector agencies to make high-
stakes decisions about human lives. Algorithms model “risk” based on individual client …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many entrepreneurs and small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) to adapt their business models and business strategies to the …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic had its first peak in the United States between April
and July of 2020, with incidence and prevalence rates of the virus the greatest in the …

As the key to digital transformation, artificial intelligence is believed to help achieve the goal
of government as a platform and the agile development of digital services. Yet we know little …

Abstract Despite Germany's Paris Agreement pledge and coal exit legislation, the political
debate around carbon-intensive coal remains heated. Coal power and mining have played …

Caseworkers are trained to write detailed narratives about families in Child-Welfare (CW)
which informs collaborative high-stakes decision-making. Unlike other administrative data …