Expanding Your Vocabulary: A Framework for Topic Integration in Texts

Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, Zachary Elkins, Andrés Cruz, Guillermo Pérez, Comparative Constitutions Project, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Social Science Computer Review

Published online on April 27, 2026

Abstract

Social Science Computer Review, Ahead of Print.
Topic discovery and integration are vital for maintaining vocabularies that categorize textual corpora. Automated approaches are often computationally expensive and lack domain-specific conceptual nuance; manual approaches are costly in terms of time and ...