Text Analytic Research Portals: Supporting Large-Scale Social Science Research

Large-scale organic data generated from newspapers, social media, television, and radio require an expertise in infrastructure management, data collection, and data processing in order to gain research value from them. We have developed text analytic research portals to help social science researchers who do not have the resources necessary to collect, store, and process these large-scale data sets. Our portals allow researchers to use an intuitive point and click interface to generate variables from large, dynamic data sets using state of the art text mining and learning methods. These timely variables constructed from noisy text can then be used to advance social science research in areas such as political science, economics, public health, and psychology research.

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This article discusses how to use text analytic research portals to assist social science researchers in handling large-scale organic data and generating variables for social science research.