# Identifying Populist Paragraphs in Text: A machine-learning approach

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03161 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03161/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 43 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Jun 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [word2vec Explained: deriving Mikolov et al.'s negative-sampling word-embedding method](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1402.3722/) (2014)
- [Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification on EU Legislation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.02192/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Abstract: In this paper we present an approach to develop a text-classification model which would be able to identify populist content in text. The developed BERT-based model is largely successful in identifying populist content in text and produces only a negligible amount of False Negatives, which makes it well-suited as a content analysis automation tool, which shortlists potentially relevant content for human validation.