Although often applied in other social sciences, text mining has been less frequently used in economics and in policy circles, particularly inside central banks. This Handbook is a brief introduction to the field. We discuss how text mining is useful for addressing research topics of interest to central banks, and provide a step-by-step primer on how to mine text, including an overview of unsupervised and supervised techniques.
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