The matter of pre-training in political studies: More data better than domain-specific new study shows
In this study we elaborate the trade-off between pre-training models on domain-specific data versus a more general dataset in a political context. We start from motions from parliamentarians in the Swedish Riksdag, and focus on the two competitors for government office parties: Social Democrats and Moderates. Elaborating word embeddings on central keywords related to issues and ideology based on v