Betül AYDOĞAN ÜNAL

İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Devletler Hukuku Anabilim Dalı

Research areas: Political Science, Social Sciences and Humanities, International Relations, Politics and Social Sciences, Public Administration, Political Life and Instutions, Other, Middle East Research

<p>Betül&nbsp;Aydoğan&nbsp;Ünal&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;Associate&nbsp;Professor&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;International&nbsp;Relations&nbsp;at&nbsp;Ege&nbsp;University,&nbsp;Faculty&nbsp;of&nbsp;Economics&nbsp;and&nbsp;Administrative&nbsp;Sciences.&nbsp;She&nbsp;received&nbsp;her&nbsp;BA&nbsp;in&nbsp;Political&nbsp;Science&nbsp;and&nbsp;International&nbsp;Relations&nbsp;from&nbsp;Boğaziçi&nbsp;University&nbsp;and&nbsp;her&nbsp;PhD&nbsp;in&nbsp;Public&nbsp;Administration&nbsp;from&nbsp;Dokuz&nbsp;Eylül&nbsp;University&nbsp;in&nbsp;2016.</p><p>Her&nbsp;research&nbsp;focuses&nbsp;primarily&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;computational&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;of&nbsp;political&nbsp;texts,&nbsp;parliamentary&nbsp;discourse,&nbsp;political&nbsp;parties,&nbsp;and&nbsp;party&nbsp;politics.&nbsp;She&nbsp;employs&nbsp;computational&nbsp;social&nbsp;science&nbsp;methods,&nbsp;including&nbsp;text&nbsp;mining,&nbsp;natural&nbsp;language&nbsp;processing,&nbsp;machine&nbsp;learning,&nbsp;and&nbsp;automated&nbsp;content&nbsp;analysis.&nbsp;She&nbsp;uses&nbsp;these&nbsp;methods&nbsp;particularly&nbsp;to&nbsp;study&nbsp;the&nbsp;ideological&nbsp;positions&nbsp;of&nbsp;political&nbsp;parties,&nbsp;political&nbsp;discourse,&nbsp;and&nbsp;polarization.</p><p>During&nbsp;the&nbsp;2025–2026&nbsp;academic&nbsp;year,&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;visiting&nbsp;researcher&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;Computer&nbsp;Science&nbsp;and&nbsp;Technology&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Cambridge,&nbsp;where&nbsp;she&nbsp;conducted&nbsp;research&nbsp;on&nbsp;estimating&nbsp;political&nbsp;party&nbsp;positions&nbsp;from&nbsp;election&nbsp;manifestos&nbsp;and&nbsp;parliamentary&nbsp;speeches&nbsp;using&nbsp;supervised&nbsp;learning&nbsp;methods.&nbsp;She&nbsp;previously&nbsp;held&nbsp;a&nbsp;visiting&nbsp;research&nbsp;position&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;Government&nbsp;at&nbsp;Harvard&nbsp;University.</p>

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