code

open-source code and software developed by my team to support computational social science research

Research Team at LMU Munich

  • Zhe Xu (Team Leader) — Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
  • Shuai Wang (Research Assistant) — Department of Statistics, LMU Munich
  • Michela Cimarelli (Research Assistant) — Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich

bertopic4news
An optimized BERTopic framework for computational news discourse analysis, integrating entropy-based filtering and Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) to improve topic quality and diversity (forthcoming).

VisFrameCluster
An MLLM-augmented framework for inductive visual frame analysis, combining multi-image integration, theory-informed prompting, semantic embedding, and unsupervised clustering with human-in-the-loop validation (forthcoming).