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Political Analysis· 2018Q1

No Longer Lost in Translation: Evidence that Google Translate Works for Comparative Bag-of-Words Text Applications

Erik De Vries, Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher

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Google Translate is a useful tool for comparative researchers using bag-of-words text models, as machine-translated texts yield highly similar term-document matrices and topic model results compared to human-translated texts.

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