Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Alshanik, Farah, Amy Apon, Yuheng Du, Alexander Herzog, and Ilya Safro. 2022. “Proactive Query Expansion for Streaming Data Using External Sources.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf]

Weeks, Liam, Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, Alexander Herzog, Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, and Hannah Béchara. 2022. “It's Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates.” Parliamentary Affairs 76 (4): 836–856. [bib|url]

Béchara, Hannah, Alexander Herzog, Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, and Peter John. 2021. “Transfer Learning for Topic Labeling: Analysis of the UK House of Commons Speeches 1935–2014.” Research & Politics 8 (2): 1–10. [bib|pdf|data and code]

Alshanik, Farah, Amy Apon, Alexander Herzog, Ilya Safro, and Justin Sybrandt. 2020. “Accelerating Text Mining Using Domain-Specific Stop Word Lists.” In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data Reduction held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf|code]

Herzog, Alexander, and Slava Jankin Mikhaylov. 2020. “Intra-Cabinet Politics and Fiscal Governance in Times of Austerity.” Political Science Research and Methods 8 (3): 409–424. [bib|pdf|data and code]

Gropp, Chris, Alexander Herzog, Ilya Safro, Paul Wilson, and Amy Apon. 2019. “Clustered Latent Dirichlet Allocation (CLDA) for Scientific Discovery.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Tools, Methods, and Use Cases for Innovative Scientific Discovery (BTSD) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf|code]

Hagemann, Sara, Stefanie Bailer, and Alexander Herzog. 2019. “Signals to Their Parliaments: Governments’ Strategic Use of Votes and Policy Statements in the Council of the European Union.” Journal of Common Market Studies 57 (3): 634–650. [bib|pdf]

Posey, Brandon, Christopher Gropp, Boyd Wilson, Boyd McGeachie, Sanjay Padhi, Alexander Herzog, and Amy Apon. 2018. “Addressing the Challenges of Executing a Massive Computational Cluster in the Cloud.” In Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid). [bib|pdf]

Sybrandt, Justin, Angelo Carrabba, Alexander Herzog, and Ilya Safro. 2018. “Are Abstracts Enough for Hypothesis Generation?” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf|code]

Avudaiappan, Neela, Alexander Herzog, Sneha Kadam, Yuheng Du, Jason Thatcher, and Ilya Safro. 2017. “Detecting and Summarizing Emergent Events in Microblogs and Social Media Streams by Dynamic Centralities.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf|code]

Du, Yuheng, Alexander Herzog, Andre Luckow, Ramu Nerella, Christopher Gropp, and Amy Apon. 2017. “Representativeness of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topics Estimated from Data Samples with Application to Common Crawl.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. [bib|pdf]

Herzog, Alexander, and Slava Jankin Mikhaylov. 2017. “Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland, 1919–2013.” In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on the Frontiers and Advances in Data Science. [bib|pdf|data]

Posey, Brandon, Christopher Gropp, Alexander Herzog, and Amy Apon. 2017. “Automated Cluster Provisioning and Workflow Management for Parallel Scientific Applications in the Cloud.” In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) held in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. [bib|pdf]

Lauderdale, Benjamin E., and Alexander Herzog. 2016. “Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech.” Political Analysis 24 (3): 374–394. [bib|pdf|supplemental material|data and code]

Herzog, Alexander, and Kenneth Benoit. 2015. “The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent During Economic Crisis.” Journal of Politics 77 (4): 1157–1175. [bib|pdf|supplemental material|data and code]

Herzog, Alexander, and Joshua A. Tucker. 2010. “The Dynamics of Support: The Winners-Losers Gap in Attitudes Towards EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries.” European Political Science Review 2 (2): 235–267. [bib|pdf|data and code]

Pappi, Franz Urban, Alexander Herzog, and Ralf Schmitt. 2006. “Koalitionssignale und die Kombination von Erst- und Zweitstimme bei den Bundestagswahlen 1953 bis 2005 [Coalition Signals and the Combination of First and Second Vote in Bundestag Elections 1953 to 2005].” Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 37 (3): 493–513. [bib|pdf]

Pappi, Franz Urban, Axel Becker, and Alexander Herzog. 2005. “Regierungsbildung in Mehrebenensystemen: Zur Erklärung der Koalitionsbildung in den deutschen Bundesländern [Government Formation in Multilevel Systems: Explaining Coalition Building in the German Länder].” Politische Vierteljahresschrift 46 (3): 432–458. [bib|pdf]

Book Chapters

Herzog, Alexander, Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, and Liam Weeks. 2021. “Ireland: The Paradox of a Weak Legislature in a Candidate-Centered System.” In Politics of Legislative Debate, edited by Hanna Back, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes, 463–483. Oxford University Press. [bib|book website]

Weeks, Liam, Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, and Alexander Herzog. 2018. “‘More Than Words’: A Quantitative Text Analysis of the Treaty Debates.” In The Treaty: Debating and Establishing the Irish State, edited by Liam Weeks and Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, 206–224. Irish Academic Press. (Winner of the Irish Political Studies Best Paper Prize 2016.) [bib|book website]

Benoit, Kenneth, and Alexander Herzog. 2017. “Text Analysis: Estimating Policy Preferences from Written and Spoken Words.” In Analytics, Policy and Governance, edited by Jennifer Bachner, Kathryn Wagner Hill, and Benjamin Ginsberg, 137–159. Yale University Press. [bib|book website]