JMCE/RECON Workshop

Computer-aided methods of textual analysis 

WP 6 - The Foreign and Security Dimension

Berlin, 27-28 May 2010  

Organised by Freie Universität Berlin

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	Thursday 27 May
	12:30-13:00	Arrival, registration, coffee
	13:30-13:15	Welcome
		Thomas Risse Free University Berlin
	13:15-13:30	Introduction: How to make use of computer- and corpus-linguistic methods for large-n text analysis in the social sciences Amelie Kutter and Cathleen Kantner Free University Berlin
		The preparation of large multi-lingual corpora
	13:30-14:00	Computing in the humanities by means of the eHumanities desktop Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim University of Bielefeld/Goethe University Frankfurt
	14:00-14:15	Discussion
	14:15-14:45	How to get rid of the noise in the corpus: cleansing large samples of digital newspaper texts Amelie Kutter and Cathleen Kantner Free University Berlin
	14:45-15:00	Discussion
	15:00-15:30	Coffee break
		Text analysis between human coding/annotation and automatisation
	15:30-16:00	Toward identifying arguments automatically Manfred Stede University of Postdam
	16:00-16:15	Discussion
	16:15-16:45	Improving manual annotation with usable software tools Manuel Burghardt and Christian Wolff University of Regensburg
	16:45-17:00	Discussion
	17:00-17:30	Electoral campaigns, relation mining, and dependency parsing: extracting semantic network data from Swiss newspaper articles Bruno Wüest, Simon Clematide and Daniel Laupper University of Zürich
	17:30-17:45	Discussion
	17:45-18:00	Final debate and conclusions first day
	19:30	Dinner: Jules Verne Restaurant Schlüterstraße 61, S-Bhf Savignyplatz
	Friday 28 May
		How to analyse millions of texts and still be home for tea? Innovations in computer-aided linguistics and the social science
	10:00-10:15	Coffee
	10:15-10:45	Avoiding the hammer-and-nails problem. A theory driven approach to computer-aided political keywords analysis Michal Bukowski Jagiellonian University Krakow
		Typical wording as a key to meaning
	10:45-11:15	Automatic meaning? Large text corpora as the source of social knowledge Jacek Kolodziej Jagiellonian University Krakow
	11:15-11:30	Discussion
	11:30-12:00	Corpus-based extraction of domain-specific terminology Fabienne Fritzinger University of Stuttgart
	12:00-12:15	Discussion
	12:15-14:00	Lunch: Harnack-Haus Ihnestraße 16-20, U-Bhf Thielplatz
	14:00-14:30	Semantic fields and conceptual categories: exploring the synergy of corpus and content analysis Cathleen Kantner and Amelie Kutter Free University Berlin
	14:30-14:45	Discussion
	14:45-15:00	Coffee break
		Approaches to tracing complex structures of meaning
	15:00-15:30	A text-mining system for content analysis of large text corpora Peter Kolb University of California, San Francisco
	15:30-15:45	Discussion
	15:45-16:15	Speech act theory and grammar-based text analysis Brit Helle Aarskog University of Bergen
	16:15-16:30	Discussion
	16:30-16:45	Coffee break
	16:45-17:30	Open discussion on problem-solutions, recommendations and concluding remarks
	19:30	Dinner: Anda Lucia Restaurant and Tapasbar Savignyplatz 2, S-Bhf Savignyplatz

For more information, please contact Cathleen Kantner