[Colloquium] Register for March 1 Text as Data Workshop

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Text As Data Workshop to Explore Culturomics

Tuesday, March 1, 2011
12-1:30 p.m.
Charles M. Harper Center Room C25
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago

Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel of the Harvard Society of
Fellows will present their work on quantitative analysis of culture using
millions of digitized books.
Their paper is available at:
 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644

They constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4 percent of
all books ever printed. They analyze this to investigate cultural trends
quantitatively. This field of  ‘culturomics’ focuses on  linguistic and
cultural phenomena as reflected in the English language between 1800 and
2000. Culturomics extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry
to a wide array of new phenomena spanning fields as diverse as lexicography,
the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the
pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.

Lunch will be served at this workshop.
If you plan to attend, please register online by 9 a.m. Feb. 28 at
http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1052787-TjNOJoswjz

Framing Issues in Political Speeches
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
1:20-2:50 p.m.
Harper Center Room 3B

The Text as Data workshop series continues on Wednesday, March 2, with a
talk on  quantitative and qualitative approaches for tracing changes to the
framing of issues in political speeches.

Presenters are Eyal Sagi and Stefan Kaufmann of Northwestern University.
They will present two computational methods for identifying changes in the
framing of issues in a corpus of political speeches. One approach is
quantitative and based on a geometrical representation of word meaning
(i.e., a semantic space). The other approach is qualitative and relies on
identifying groups of words that frequently co-occur with each other
(cliques). They can be used in concert to produce a more robust method for
tracing changes in the framing of issues. This method can be applied to
identify changes in the framing of issues in a corpus of U.S. senate
speeches.

The series is free and open to interested researchers and students. No
registration is required.

The workshop series will continue through March 16 .
See [4]workshop details at:
 http://mfi.uchicago.edu/events/text_data_workshop.shtml

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