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

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

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)
Language and Social Dynamics
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California (USC))
Do happy people get more from their friends?: What we can learn about social networks from text analysis
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)
The Language of Food

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
David Smith (Northeastern University)
Inferring Network Structure from Textual Evidence
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Matthew Jockers (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Sentiment Analysis as Proxy for Plot
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:15
Yong-Yeol Ahn (Indiana University)
The minor fall, the major lift: what can we learn from a large corpus of lyrics?
17:30-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
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
Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)
Bayesian Poisson Tensor Decomposition for International Relations

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Ralph Kenna (Coventry University)
Maths Meets Myths – Investigations of Networks in Ancient Narratives
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)
Abstract models for citable analyses of citable texts
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:15
Lisa Rhody (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Algorithm and the Urn

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Hoyt Long (University of Chicago)
(with Richard Jean So) Modeling Racial Segregation in the US Literary Field, 1880-1990
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
David Blei (Columbia University)
Understanding History through Topic Modeling
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45-12:30
David Garcia (ETH Zürich)
How group identity and human-computer interaction shape online communication

Afternoon Session

12:45-14:15
Lunch (on your own)
14:15-15:00
Ryan Heuser (Stanford University)
Word Vectors in the Eighteenth Century
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University)
Suspense: Computation, Affect, and the Virtual Reader

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
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?
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Winter Mason (Facebook)
The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Natalie Houston (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Measuring Poetic Style: a Comparative Approach to Historical Poetics
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:15
Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin)
Measured Applause: Toward a Cultural Analysis of Audio Collections

Friday, May 27, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Brian Croxall (Brown University)
Modeling Hemingway, Modeling Digital Humanities: A Pedagogy-Driven Investigation of an In-Copyright Corpus
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
Simon DeDeo (Indiana University)
War is the father of all things: Information, Innovation, and Creative Destruction on Wikipedia

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:30
Conclusion
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