Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16028v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:55:13 GMT
• Title: Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis
• Authors: Andrew Halterman
• Abstract summary: I provide a conceptual overview of text generation, guidance on when researchers should prefer different techniques for generating synthetic text, a discussion of ethics, and a simple technique for improving the quality of synthetic text. I demonstrate the usefulness of synthetic text with three applications: generating synthetic tweets describing the fighting in Ukraine, synthetic news articles describing specified political events for training an event detection system, and a multilingual corpus of populist manifesto statements for training a sentence-level populism classifier.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Supervised text models are a valuable tool for political scientists but present several obstacles to their use, including the expense of hand-labeling documents, the difficulty of retrieving rare relevant documents for annotation, and copyright and privacy concerns involved in sharing annotated documents. This article proposes a partial solution to these three issues, in the form of controlled generation of synthetic text with large language models. I provide a conceptual overview of text generation, guidance on when researchers should prefer different techniques for generating synthetic text, a discussion of ethics, and a simple technique for improving the quality of synthetic text. I demonstrate the usefulness of synthetic text with three applications: generating synthetic tweets describing the fighting in Ukraine, synthetic news articles describing specified political events for training an event detection system, and a multilingual corpus of populist manifesto statements for training a sentence-level populism classifier.

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