Words and Actions. Political text mining

Description

The “Words and Actions” project hosted a two-day international workshop on advanced methods of textual analysis used to address complex and theoretically rich questions coming from sociology, political science and history.

The workshop focuses on three methodological approaches to texts. First, it presents novel techniques of supervised machine learning applied for automated annotation of texts. These techniques enable scaling up of theory-rich qualitative research approaches, such as discourse network analysis. The second approach introduces quantitative methods of semantic analysis as tools for a fine-grained study of social and political change used by conceptual historians and political sociologists. Third, the workshop aims at exploring the use of vector representations of textual data – such as word embeddings –for nurturing research which takes into account multi-dimensionality of cultural and political space.

Period	13 Jan 2020 → 14 Jan 2020
Event type	Workshop
Location	Helsinki, FinlandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International