code
open-source code and software developed by my team to support computational social science research
Team
- 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
Computational framework
bertopic4news
An optimized BERTopic framework for news discourse, integrating entropy-based filtering and Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) to improve topic quality and diversity. The Python code will be released soon on GitHub.
VisFrameCluster
an MLLM-augmented computational framework for visual frame discovery, combining multi-image integration, theory-informed prompting, semantic embedding, and unsupervised clustering with human-in-the-loop validation. The Python code will be released soon on GitHub.