Workshop IV: Mathematical Analysis of Cultural Expressive Forms: Text Data

Part of the Long Program Culture Analytics
May 23 - 27, 2016

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 23, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)

Language and Social Dynamics

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)

The Language of Food
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
David Smith (Northeastern University)

Inferring Network Structure from Textual Evidence

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00
Matthew Jockers (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Sentiment Analysis as Proxy for Plot
PDF Presentation
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:15
Yong-Yeol Ahn (Indiana University)

The minor fall, the major lift: what can we learn from a large corpus of lyrics?
PDF Presentation
5:30 - 7:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Noah Smith (University of Washington)

Natural Language Processing for Framing

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

Political Language in Economics

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00
Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)

Abstract models for citable analyses of citable texts

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:15
Lisa Rhody (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

The Algorithm and the Urn


Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15
David Blei (Columbia University)

Understanding History through Topic Modeling
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:30
12:45 - 2:15 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:15 - 3:00
Ryan Heuser (Stanford University)

Word Vectors in the Eighteenth Century
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30
Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University)

Suspense: Computation, Affect, and the Virtual Reader


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Markus Strohmaier (Universität Koblenz-Landau)

Measuring Social Phenomena on Wikipedia

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Ted Underwood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

How should we measure cultural change?
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Natalie Houston (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Measuring Poetic Style: a Comparative Approach to Historical Poetics
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:15

Friday, May 27, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Towards Closer Reading of Very large-scale Text Corpus

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 Conclusion