Projects
Promoting The Empire: The Mediatization of The Japanese Foreign Ministry in the Interwar Period, 1919 – 1936 KU Leuven
In August of 1921, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MOFA) Department of Information (Gaimushō Jōhōbu) was officially created. Since the second half of the Nineteenth Century, advances in communications technologies had allowed for the global rise of a general public that followed along with the events of domestic and international politics via the consumption of mass media, and which was perceived by political actors as constituting ...
Merizenship. Theorizing an Informal Citizenship Based on Meritoriousness and Merit. Ghent University
Does perceived meritoriousness influence access to key rights? Do its effects transcend citizenship? What are the legal mechanisms at play connecting presumed meritoriousness and access to rights, migratory statuses and citizenship? Do such mechanisms reflect public opinion regarding merit and “belonging to the society”? My goal is to approach these questions with the aid of the concept 'merizenship', zooming in on immigration, citizenship ...
The Impact of Information and Own Preferences on Political Elites' Perceptions of the Voters' Policy Wishes. University of Antwerp
Climate Policy Support and the role of Information University of Antwerp
Power to the people? Studying citizen involvement in political decision-making and its effects om democratic legitimacy from a bottom-up perspective. KU Leuven
Many citizens in western democracies are dissatisfied with the way politics works in their country. Among academics, journalists and politicians there is a deep concern about a deficit in perceived democratic legitimacy, indicated by a lack of trust in political institutions and representatives, lack of compliance and cooperation, support for protest parties and a general sense that politics is an elite affair where the ordinary citizen is ...
Argumentation mining of political social media text. Ghent University
Since the rise of social networks, daily exposure to fellow users’ opinions and comments has become a constant in many people’s lives. Research has shown the impact of even the most passive type of online user engagement, namely reading comments under a news item, can affect the perceived quality of the article, as well as change users’ perception of the public opinion of a certain issue. In order to automatically detect the reasoning ...
POLEMICS: Political Argumentation Mining on Comments Ghent University
Since the rise of social networks, daily exposure to fellow users’ opinions and comments has become a constant in many people’s lives. Research has shown the impact of even the most passive type of online user engagement, namely reading comments under a news item, can affect the perceived quality of the article, as well as change users’ perception of the public opinion of a certain issue. In order to automatically detect the reasoning ...
Quality of the Vote Choice. Accountability and Congruence in Electoral Democracies. KU Leuven
Electoral volatility is an increasingly important component of electoral behaviour. From a normative point of view, voting entails at least two components. On the one hand, voters need to express their political preference through their vote. Therefore, they need to cast a vote that corresponds with their point of view (proximity voting). On the other hand, for the political system to be responsive, voters need to hold the government ...
SENTiVENT: event extraction and sentiment analysis for financial applications. Ghent University
In economic news, journalists and analysts give objective information on recent events while also
discussing the implications of events in an implicitly subjective manner. We investigate text mining
approaches for extracting structured factual data alongside subjective information from Dutch and
English economic news reporting. Event extraction obtains detailed information about economic
events such as acquisitions, ...