Anke Stoll developed a dictionary to detect German incivility using manual and automated approaches. The podcast discusses the challenges and potentials of using dictionaries in computational communication science, including the advantages of cost-effectiveness and scalability, difficulties in keyword collection, and the potential of incorporating machine learning. They also explore the evaluation of dictionaries, the importance of training models on relevant data, and the challenges of building dictionaries, recommending freely accessible dictionaries and coding schemes.
