Forum: Coding in Tongues: Developing Non-English Coding Schemes for Leadership Profiling. Issue 4 (20th February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brummer, Klaus; Young, Michael D; Özdamar, Özgur; Canbolat, Sercan; Thiers, Consuelo; Rabini, Christian; Dimmroth, Katharina; Hansel, Mischa; Mehvar, Ameneh
• Is Part Of: International studies review. Volume 22:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 1039
• Page End: 1067
• Publication Date: 2020-02-20
• Subjects: automated coding -- foreign policy analysis -- leadership profiling -- leadership trait analysis -- operational code analysis; International relations -- Periodicals; World politics -- Periodicals; 320.05
• DOI: 10.1093/isr/viaa001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1521-9488

Abstract

Abstract: Over the last twenty years since the introduction of automated coding schemes, research in foreign policy analysis (FPA) has made great advances. However, this automatization process is based on the analysis of verbal statements of leaders to create leadership profiles and has remained largely confined in terms of language. That is, the coding schemes can only parse English-language texts. This reduces both the quality and quantity of available data and limits the application of these leadership profiling techniques beyond the Anglosphere. Against this background, this forum offers five reports on the development of freely available coding schemes for either operational code analysis or leadership trait analysis for languages other than English (i.e., Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Persian).