Quantitative Text Analysis Dublin (QTA-DUB) Workshop
June 18-19 2019
University College Dublin
Workshop Details
The 2019 Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop will take place at the UCD Science Centre on the Belfield Campus in Dublin, from 18-19 June 2019. The workshop will be interdisciplinary in nature, and we invite contributions and attendance from researchers in political science, the social sciences, computer science, and other disciplines.
Automated text analysis is rapidly manifesting itself as a promising new approach for studying urgent issues facing our politics and societies today. From climate change communication, to misinformation on social media, and from party competition to elite political discourse in more or less formalised settings, textual data is ubiquitous. To take stock of new developments in this exciting field, we invite interested scholars to participate in a 2-day workshop in Dublin to discuss new approaches and substantive applications of automated and semi-automated text analysis in the political and social sciences.
Key Dates
Important conference dates:
- Abstract Submission — 1 March
- Acceptance Notification — 15 March
- Workshop — 18‐19 June
Organisation & Support
Workshop organising committee:
- Constantine Boussalis — Trinity College Dublin
- James P. Cross — University College Dublin
- Silvia Decadri — Trinity College Dublin
- Derek Greene — University College Dublin
- Martijn Schoonvelde — University College Dublin
- Natalia Umansky — University College Dublin
We encourage both substantive and methodological papers from all sub-disciplines of political science, data science and related fields, as long as they share a focus on applying text-as-data methods to pressing questions in these disciplines. Methodological approaches of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Text classification
- Sentiment analysis
- Topic modelling and document clustering
- Knowledge graph construction
- Semantic tagging
- Entity relation modelling
- Temporal analysis of text corpora
- Network analysis of textual data
- Visualisation of text-as-data
- Machine learning applied to text
- Deep learning on text
The workshop is co-funded by the Political Studies Association of Ireland; the UCD School of Politics and International Relations; and the SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics. For workshop queries, please contact the chairs at psai.sgtext@gmail.com
Attending
The workshop will start on 18 June around noon and end on 19 June around the same time. This will leave interested scholars who plan on attending EPSA enough time to reach Belfast – an easy train or bus journey from Dublin. International scholars attending EPSA might even want to consider flying into Dublin, a convenient hub for transatlantic flights coming into Europe.
Venue: The workshop will take place in the new Science Centre East (O'Brien Centre) on the UCD Belfield Campus. A map of the UCD campus is available here. The Science Centre is located overlooking the UCD lake, a short walk from the main N11 entrance.
Transport: Information on how to get to UCD is here. The easiest way to reach the Belfield campus from Dublin city centre is by public transport. The 46A, 145, and 39A bus routes all stop near the N11 entrance. Limited free parking is available on the campus during June.
Accomodation: The following local hotels are convenient for UCD Belfield — Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel and the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan.
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