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2019 年度 実績報告書

Communicating Security Threat: Newspaper Coverage of North Korean and Iranian Nuclear Programs

研究課題

研究課題/領域番号 19H01450
研究機関早稲田大学

研究代表者

渡辺 耕平  早稲田大学, 高等研究所, その他(招聘研究員) (50832466)

研究分担者 多湖 淳  早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (80457035)
研究期間 (年度) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
キーワードcontent analysis / conference / software development
研究実績の概要

We have made significant contribution to the development of quantitative text analysis in Japan through our research project about North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs and organization of the first international conference on the methodology and its social science applications in Asia.
We have established a methodology for multi-lingual analysis, created lexical resources in Japanese, Hebrew and English, and improved handling of Unicode characters by open-source software programs as part of our research project in FY2019. The methodological development made quantitative text analysis in Asian languages accessible to political scientists without technological expertise.
The international conference on quantitative text analysis (POLTEXT) held in Tokyo attracted one hundred international participants. It introduced Japanese political scientists to the methodology through participation in tutorial events and cutting-edge research presentation. We expect that many of the Japanese participants at the conference will employ the methodology in their future research projects, and further promote the methodology in Japan and other Asian countries.
We have already written a research paper on latent semantic scaling (LSS), and a book chapter on semantic network analysis. These pieces will be published in peer-reviewed journal and a book, along with upcoming two substantive papers on the content analysis and survey experiment in the coming years.

現在までの達成度 (区分)
現在までの達成度 (区分)

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理由

We made a good progress in our research project in FY2019. Although we rescheduled paper writing because the ECPR conference was canceled due to the COV19 pandemic, other tasks are largely on schedule.
We have completed collecting news articles on Iran and North Korea from Japanese, Hebrew and English newspapers over 10 years. We collected over a hundred thousands full-text articles in total. This is an important mile stone in the project as data collection is usually the most difficult task in quantitative text analysis. We have also created software tools to extract texts and meta information from the collected articles.
We have created stop words not only in Japanese and Hebrew but also in Chinese and Arabic as part of the project. The stop words list is already made publicly available to allow other researchers to embark on quantitative analysis of Asian-language texts. We also have identified seed words for security threat in both Japanese and Hebrew. The seed words will be published in the research paper on the content analysis of newspapers.
The software tools that we employ in the large-scale quantitative analysis has been improved. We improved how these software tools handle Unicode characters to make them useful in analysis of Asian-languages texts. All of those tools are distributed as R packages and they are becoming increasingly popular among political scientists in different world regions.
The analysis pipeline has been constructed programmatically using the software tools and already produced very interesting results that support our hypotheses.

今後の研究の推進方策

We are currently creating datasets by employing human coders to validate the results of quantitative text analysis. Manual coding is completed in Japanese and on-going in Hebrew. We expect that the manual coding of Hebrew articles to be completed in June. Once the manual coding is completed, we will rerun the analysis pipeline and produce final results to write a research paper on the content analysis of newspapers.
We have already started designing servery experiment that we will conduct this year in both Japan and Israel. We lost a Israeli research collaborator for her personal reasons but recruited a person to replace her in survey experiment. A research paper that combine the content analysis and the survey experiment will be produce next year.

  • 研究成果

    (7件)

すべて 2020 2019 その他

すべて 国際共同研究 (1件) 雑誌論文 (1件) (うち査読あり 1件、 オープンアクセス 1件) 学会発表 (3件) (うち国際学会 3件、 招待講演 1件) 備考 (1件) 学会・シンポジウム開催 (1件)

  • [国際共同研究] Tel Aviv University(イスラエル)

    • 国名
      イスラエル
    • 外国機関名
      Tel Aviv University
  • [雑誌論文] Theory-Driven Analysis of Large Corpora: Semisupervised Topic Classification of the UN Speeches2020

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Watanabe Kohei, Zhou Yuan
    • 雑誌名

      Social Science Computer Review

      巻: NP ページ: NP

    • DOI

      https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439320907027

    • 査読あり / オープンアクセス
  • [学会発表] Application of distributional semantics in social sciences: Analysis of news coverage of the refugee crisis using word-embedding techniques2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Kohei Watanabe
    • 学会等名
      Austrian Linguistics Conference
    • 国際学会 / 招待講演
  • [学会発表] Making a topic dictionary for semi-supervised classification of the UN speeches2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Kohei Watanabe
    • 学会等名
      QTA-Dublin
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] Textual Network Analysis: Detecting Prevailing Themes and Biases in International News and Social Media2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Elad Segev
    • 学会等名
      POLTEXT 2019
    • 国際学会
  • [備考] Quantitative analysis of textual data

    • URL

      https://quanteda.io/

  • [学会・シンポジウム開催] POLTEXT 20192019

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公開日: 2021-01-27  

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