Tobias Burst
Tobias Burst is a Research Fellow in the DFG project "Manifesto Research on Political Representation” (MARPOR) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and is part of OPTED Working Package 4. He studied political science at the University of Kassel, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen. During his studies, he specialized in computational text analysis methods. In his current research he focuses on the application of transformer-based language models to classify political texts.
quantitative text analysis I word embeddings I transformer models I political communication I parliamentary speeches
Email: tobias.burst@wzb.eu