@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-towards-quantifying,
    title = "Towards quantifying politicization in foreign aid project reports",
    author = "Wang, Sidi  and
      Eggers, Gustav  and
      de Roode Torres Georgiadis, Alexia  and
      {\DJ}o, Tuan Anh  and
      Gontard, L{\'e}a  and
      Carlitz, Ruth  and
      Bloem, Jelke",
    editor = "Afli, Haithem  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Casagran, Cristina Blasi  and
      Ghannay, Sahar",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.politicalnlp-1.9",
    pages = "85--90",
    abstract = "We aim to develop a metric of politicization by investigating whether this concept can be operationalized computationally using document embeddings. We are interested in measuring the extent to which foreign aid is politicized. Textual reports of foreign aid projects are often made available by donor governments, but these are large and unstructured. By embedding them in vector space, we can compute similarities between sets of known politicized keywords and the foreign aid reports. We present a pilot study where we apply this metric to USAID reports.",
}

We aim to develop a metric of politicization by investigating whether this concept can be operationalized computationally using document embeddings. We are interested in measuring the extent to which foreign aid is politicized. Textual reports of foreign aid projects are often made available by donor governments, but these are large and unstructured. By embedding them in vector space, we can compute similarities between sets of known politicized keywords and the foreign aid reports. We present a pilot study where we apply this metric to USAID reports.
Wang, Sidi Eggers, Gustav de Roode Torres Georgiadis, Alexia {\DJ}o, Tuan Anh Gontard, L{\'e}a Carlitz, Ruth Bloem, Jelke
Towards quantifying politicization in foreign aid project reports