A ripple in time: a discontinuity in American history

arXiv:2312.01185v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this note we use the State of the Union Address (SOTU) dataset from Kaggle to make some surprising (and some not so surprising) observations pertaining to the general timeline of American history, and the character and nature of the addresses themselves. Our main approach is using vector embeddings, such as BERT (DistilBERT) and GPT-2.
While it is widely believed that BERT (and its variations) is most suitable for NLP classification tasks, we find out …

abstract arxiv cs.ai cs.cl cs.lg cs.si dataset discontinuity general history kaggle nature ripple state timeline type union