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Mike Burnham

@mlburnham.bsky.social
170 followers 84 following 4 posts

ABD @ Penn State Poli. Sci. and SoDA. NLP, text, machine learning, american politics and ideology

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Currently in FirstView: In “Political DEBATE: Efficient Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers for Political Text,” Michael Burnham, Kayla Kahn, Ryan Yang Wang, and Rachel Peng introduce DEBATE, a new open source foundation model for classifying political documents.
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Mike Burnham @mlburnham.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Not sure who is right in the end, but all of these criticisms miss.
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Mike Burnham @mlburnham.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Check out my job market paper polisky! I use large language models to estimate ideal points. It allows you to separate policy and affect dimensions, and works with any corpus (voters, elites, rebel groups, short docs, long docs, etc.). No massive proprietary models (GPT) needed.
drive.google.com
Semantic_Scaling1.4.pdf
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Mike Burnham @mlburnham.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
@profmusgrave.bsky.social Please add me to polisky, thanks!
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