Using Word Embeddings to Uncover Discourses
Quentin Dénigot, Heather Burnett · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2021
Word embeddings are generally trained on very large corpora to ensure their reliability and to better perform in specific sets of tasks.Critical Discourse Analysis usually studies corpora of much more modest sizes, but could use the word similarity ratings that word embeddings can provide. In this paper, we explore the possiblity of using word embeddings on these smaller corpora and see how the results we obtain can be interpreted when synchronically analysing corpora from different groups.