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'a la Carte' on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression

v3.0.1 · Apr 11, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

A fast, flexible and transparent framework to estimate context-specific word and short document embeddings using the 'a la carte' embeddings approach developed by Khodak et al. (2018) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.05388> and evaluate hypotheses about covariate effects on embeddings using the regression framework developed by Rodriguez et al. (2021)<doi:10.1017/S0003055422001228>. New version of the package applies a new estimator to measure the distance between word embeddings as described in Green et al. (2025) <doi:10.1017/pan.2024.22>.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 19, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 3, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘quickstart.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
INFO  [15:43:09.621] epoch 1, loss 0.2263
INFO  [15:43:12.574] epoch 2, loss 0.0759
INFO  [15:43:15.651] epoch 3, loss 0.0492
INFO  [15:43:18.824] epoch 4, loss
...[truncated]...
 'quickstart.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
pandoc document conversion failed with error 1
--- failed re-building ‘quickstart.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘quickstart.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr Matrix quanteda text2vec (>= 0.6) reshape2 fastDummies stringr (>= 1.4.0) tidyr ggplot2 broom foreach estimatr tidyselect conText

Version History

7 tracked
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0.0 diff Apr 12, 2026
new 3.0.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.0.0 ← 1.4.3 diff Sep 2, 2025
updated 1.4.3 ← 1.4.2 diff Feb 8, 2023
updated 1.4.2 ← 1.1.0 diff Jan 13, 2023
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Apr 4, 2022
new 1.0.0 Oct 24, 2021