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'a la Carte' on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression

v3.0.0 · Sep 2, 2025 · GPL-3

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A fast, flexible and transparent framework to estimate context-specific word and short document embeddings using the 'a la carte' embeddings approach developed by Khodak et al. (2018) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.05388> and evaluate hypotheses about covariate effects on embeddings using the regression framework developed by Rodriguez et al. (2021)<doi:10.1017/S0003055422001228>. New version of the package applies a new estimator to measure the distance between word embeddings as described in Green et al. (2025) <doi:10.1017/pan.2024.22>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr Matrix quanteda text2vec (>= 0.6) reshape2 fastDummies stringr (>= 1.4.0) tidyr ggplot2 broom foreach estimatr tidyselect conText

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new 3.0.0 Mar 9, 2026