Text Analysis Research Group at IAS
At the Institute for Analytical Sociology, I organize monthly (online or hybrid) meetings bringing together sociologists enthusiastic about computational text analysis from Swedish and other European universities. We discuss fundamental or novel research in the field of text analysis, invite guest speakers and present our work to each other. Send me an email to anastasia.menshikova@liu.se if you want to know more or join our discussion sessions!
Spring 2024
March 21st, 11 AM
Hendrik Erz, the Institute for Analytical Sociology
A discussion of Lisa P. Argyle’s paper and talk on using language models to simulate human samples
April 18th, 11 AM
Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg
Modeling the Change: Using Diachronic Word Usage Graphs, XL-LEXEME, and contextualized word embeddings for detecting lexical semantic change
May 23rd, 11 AM
Petter Törnberg, University of Amsterdam
A discussion session on using LLMs for text analysis
June 13th, 11 AM
Ross Barker, London School of Economics
Computational text analysis and its applications in demography
Fall 2023
October 12th, 5 PM
Laura Nelson, the University of British Columbia
Generative Language Models for Social Science Research
October 19th, 11 AM
Felix Lennert (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and Väinö Yrjänäinen (Uppsala University)
Studying the relationship between media landscape and public opinion using dynamic word embeddings
November 16th, 11 AM
Anica Waldendorf, European University Institute\ Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media
December 14th, 11 AM
Hendrik Erz, the Institute for Analytical Sociology
Polarization and Paradigm Shifts in US Congressional Economic Policymaking: An Issue-Based Discourse Analysis Using Large Language Models
Spring 2023
January 12th, 11 AM
Hendrik Erz, the Institute for Analytical Sociology
Using grammatical structures to measure the agency of individuals and organisations in texts
February 9th, 11 AM
Kristian Gade Kjelmann, Aalborg University
Word embeddings as a method for studying relevant semantic change and relating them to social science concepts
March 16th, 11 AM
Ana Macanovic, Utrecht University
Validation of constructs extracted from text using automatic text analysis methods
April 6th, 11 AM
Josef Ginnerskov, Uppsala University
Studying disciplinary change in Swedish sociology using a corpus of social science dissertations defended in Sweden
June 1st, 11 AM
Etienne Ollion, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Annotating texts using Large Language Models
Fall 2022
December 1st, 11 AM
Ken Benoit, London School of Economics
The future of computational text analysis methods