Causal inference from text: A commentary
@article{Sridhar2022CausalIF,
title={Causal inference from text: A commentary},
author={Dhanya Sridhar and David M. Blei},
journal={Science Advances},
year={2022},
volume={8}
}Statistical and machine learning methods help social scientists and other researchers make causal inferences from texts.
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