# Distant Reading of the German Coalition Deal: Recognizing Policy Positions with BERT-based Text Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14648 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.14648/

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- First posted on arXiv 30 Dec 2022.

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- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Automated text analysis has become a widely used tool in political science. In this research, we use a BERT model trained on German party manifestos to identify the individual parties' contribution to the coalition agreement of 2021.