Although often applied in other social sciences, text mining has been less frequently used in economics and in policy circles, particularly inside central banks.
CCBS publication
By David Bholat, Stephen Hansen, Pedro Santos and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
This Handbook is a brief introduction to the field, discussing how text mining is useful for addressing research topics of interest to central banks, and providing a step-by-step primer on how to mine text, including an overview of unsupervised and supervised techniques.
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Text mining for central banks 