Workshop

Exploring text data: New methods in statistics and CS, and applications to political economy - TIRIS Workshop

December 19, 2024 - 2pm-5.30pm - Auditorium A5

December 19, 2024, 14:00–17:30

Auditorium 5

Context and objectives

The project "Text-mining and new measurement strategies in political economy" was selected in 2024 by TIRIS (Toulouse Initiative Research's Impact on Society) as of its interdisciplinary research projects. Situated at the intersection of computer science, quantitative political economy and mathematics, it aims to use recent advances in complex and large data processing- in particular text mining and large language models- to propose new measures of public opinion and political polarisation. (Read more about this project). 

As a kick-off event the reseach team, which brings together researchers from IMT (Institut de Mathématique de Toulouse), IRIT (Institut de Recherche in Informatique de Toulouse) and TSE Toulouse School of Economics), is organizing a workshop at TSE on 19 December 2024 from 14:00 to 17:30.

During this workshop, we will present the objectives of the project as well as some ongoing work and challenges.
We cordially invite all researchers and students from IAST, IMT, IRIT, TSE and the wider scientific community in Toulouse to attend this workshop. You are very welcome to attend all or part of the workshop. Part of the afternoon will be dedicated to a general discussion with the audience.

Registration

Free participation. If possible, please sign up here so that we can plan for coffee breaks and snacks accordingly.

Program 

2.00 - 2.10 pm
Welcome/Presentation of the TIRIS project

2.10pm - 2.45pm
"Using NLP to represent the evolution of policy positions: An application to tech industry regulation in the UK",
Christophe Gaillac (University of Geneva) and Karine van der Straeten (TSE)

2.45pm - 3.20pm
"Using Analogical Transfer for Semantic Role Labelling: A Preliminary Study",
Stergos Afantenos (IRIT) and Umberto Grandi (IRIT)

3.20pm - 3.50pm Coffee break

3.50pm - 4.25pm
"Parsimonious Wasserstein Text-mining",
Sébastien Gadat (TSE) and Stéphane Villeneuve (TSE)

4.25pm - 5pm
General discussion with the audience about opportunities and challenges in using text as data in social sciences

5pm-5:30pm Snacks

Organizing teams

- Stergos Afantenos (Computer science, IRIT)
- Manon Costa (Mathematics, IMT)
- Sébastien Gadat (Mathematics, TSE)
- Christophe Gaillac (Economics, University of Geneva)
- Umberto Grandi (Computer Science, IRIT)
- Karine Van der Straeten (Economics, TSE)

With the support of Christelle Fauchié (TSE) and Corinne Vella (TSE)

Conference venue

Toulouse School of Economics - Auditorium A5 (2nd Floor)
1 Esplanade de l'Université
31080 Toulouse cedex 06

Contact

Please write to Karine.van-der-straeten@tse-fr.eu if you would like more information about the workshop or the "Text-mining and new measurement strategies in political economy" project.

See also