Applied Quantitative Text Analysis Conference, 2017

Details

The LSE will host a day-long conference focussing on quantitative text-analysis in the social sciences on 19th May 2017. This conference aims to provide graduate students and experienced social-science researchers in the UK working on quantitative text analysis the opportunity to present their work to and receive feedback from a group of like-minded scholars. The conference is supported by ESRC grant ES/N016297/1 and the Methodology Department at the LSE.

May 19th 2017
Graham Wallace Room
5th Floor, Old Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE

If you would like to attend, please email me at j.blumenau@lse.ac.uk

Schedule

Please click on the schedule links to read this year's papers.

9.15am - 9.45am Coffee and pastries

9.45am - 11.15am

Legislative Speech and Rebellion: Emphasizing Dissent or Explaining Votes
Jonathan Slapin, Essex Themes and Topics in Parliamentary Oversight Hearings: A New Direction in Textual Data Analysis
James Sanders, Giulio Lisi & Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, LSE

11.30am - 1.00pm

Forecasting with Social Media: Evidence from Tweets on Soccer Matches
Alasdair Brown, UEA Criminality or Sheer Numbers? Attribute Agenda-Setting of Immigration and Asylum in British Newspapers, 2001-2015
William Allen, Oxford

1.00pm - 2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm - 4.15pm

Legislative Role Models: Female Ministers, Participation, and Influence in the UK House of Commons
Jack Blumenau, LSE Detecting and Visualising the Lexical Structure of Political Concepts
Paul Nulty, Cambridge The role of negation in political text: British and German electoral campaigns
Tom Paskhalis & Christian Muller, LSE

4.30pm - 6.00pm

Patients' written reviews as a resource for a more resilient and sustainable public healthcare infrastructure in UK
Radoslaw Kowalski, UCL Predicting the Impact of Legislative Texts: An Application of Supervised Machine Learning to Statutory Instruments in the United Kingdom, 2005-2015
Radoslaw Zubek, Abhishek Dasgupta & David Doyle, Oxford

6.30pm Conference Dinner

A PDF version of this schedule can be found here

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